LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 21ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A motor vessel had struck a mine in the Mersey, but her crew were rescued by other vessels. - Rewards, £9 1s..

OCTOBER 23RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A small yacht had been reported in difficulties, but her crew were rescued by a steamer. - Rewards, £15 2s. 6d..

On the 22nd September, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the smack Wasp, of Belfast, had her sails blown away, and drove ashore at Kingmore, in Dundrum Bay. The Memorial Life-boat put off to her assistance and rescued the crew, consisting of...

Wicklow.—At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1954, a man at Brittas Bay telephoned that the yacht Monk, which had been stolen from Dun Laoghaire, was in Brittas Bay.

No one was aboard, and as no other boat was...

Hoylake, Cheshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 12th of April, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic told the coxswain that a vessel was on the West Hoyle Bank. The coxswain told the Formby coastguard and kept watch on her. She made...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.15 on the after- noon of the llth of November, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a smallboat with four men in it was in diffi- culties between one and a half and two miles west of Herne Bay pier.

At...

On the morn- ing of the 17th of November a vessel was seen burning a light as a signal of distress during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in a heavy sea. The Grocers' life-boat, sta- tioned at Mundesley, was at once got ready, and...

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