LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIFE-BOATMEN'S SONS DROWNED Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 10.20 p.m.

on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the coxswain was told thattwo boys had been reported missing in akayak. He informed the honorary secretary and it...

SCARBOROUGH.—The s.s. trawler Viking, proceeding from the fishing ground to Grimsby on the 13th February, stranded on the White Nab, one mile S. of Scarborough.

The weather was very thick at the time and a very light wind...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the afternoon of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a vessel north of the harbour was blowing for help. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and there...

Baltimore, Co. Cork;—At about 9.20 in the morning of the 9th of June, 1948, fishermen returning to harbour reported a boat in distress off Fastnet Rock.

It was thought that she might be the local motor fishing boat Ebenezer...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather deteriorated while six local fishing boats were still at sea, and it was decided that the no. 1 life-boat should launch to escort them into the harbour. At 10.54 the...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.6 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, the coast- guard learnt from the police that two canoes had capsized in Breydon Water.

This information was passed by the...

Galway Bay. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 29th September, 1961, the local doctor asked for the life-boat to take him to Inishmaan to attend a very sick child. The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station, left her...

Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1957, the Bailey lighthouse-keeper telephoned that a boat was drifting ashore under the cliffs near the lighthouse. At seven o'clock the life-boat John...