LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

19th January. The French trawler Dahlia, of Dieppe, was in distress, but other vessels went to her help.—Rewards £14 9*. Gd..

BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT RAMSEY NOVEMBER 20TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. About seven in the morning, the steam trawler Strathairlie, of Aberdeen, of 193 tons, on her way from Fleetwood to the fishing grounds, ran ashore at Skellig Bay, about...

The s.s. Vikvall, of Oskaishamn, Sweden, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, about'one mile S.E. of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, on 24th December, while bound, in ballast, to Hartlepool. The weather was misty, and a strong westerly...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At three in the afternoon of the 24th of March, 1952, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported aground on the revetment near C.16 buoy in the Crosby Channel and listing...

At about 9 A.M. on the 18th March, Coxswain Bowen, who was on duty near Cardigan Bay, observed a signal of distress from the ketch Clara, of Milford Haven, which appeared to be in imminent danger of being driven ashore. He at once took steps...

Newhaven, Sussex. At 4.16 p.m. on 9th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in danger of being driven ashore in Seaford Bay.

The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 4.25 in a moderate to fresh...

DECEMBER 6TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported a steamer drifting in the Queens Channel, but not in need of help at that time. A heavy westerly gale was blowing, with a wild and confused sea, and the...

APRIL 1ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small yacht, with three men on board, was in distress in a gale, but the men were rescued by a fishing smack. - Rewards, £8 9s.

(See Sheerness, “ Services by Shore-boats,”...