LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 2 8TH. - BRIDLINGTON AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. On the night of the 27th the Dutch motor vessel Thea, of Groningen, bound with a cargo of china clay from Grangemouth to Antwerp, foundered in Bridlington Bay. She had eight on board....

As if they won’t face enough challenges, the RNLI’s newest crew will be keeping an eye out for monsters as the charity takes over the Coastguard rescue station on Loch Ness.

At the time of writing, a trial was about to...

About 7 A.M. on the 3rd November, the same Life-boat launched to the brigantine Harmston, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, which vessel was stranded on the Middle Cross Sand off Caister. A gale from the S.S.E, was blowing, with the usual heavy seas on...

AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at New- biggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.

A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...

During a moderate S.S.W. gale on the 27th January a vessel was observed by the Coastguard stranded on the main about two miles north of Palling. The crew and helpers were speedily called, and the Palling No. 1 Life-boat, 5ith West Norfolk...

TEN SURVIVORS PICKED UP FROM RAFTS Longhope, and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.7 on the afternoon of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the Stronsay honorary secretary that the motor vessel Daisy of Peterhead had sunk and that her crew...

IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.

Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...

Eyemouth.—Shortly before noon on the 6th March, when a whole S.S.E. . gale was blowing, the Coastguard re- j ported that a vessel was in distress off j St. Abbs Head, and in urgent need of j assistance. The Eyemouth Life-boat | Anne Frances...