LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 9.15 on the morning of the 5th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Sarah Ann was over- due. After further enquiries had been made, the life-boat Gertrude was launched at 10.5...

Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.28 in the morning, on the 30th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had warned off two ships approaching the Goodwin Sands. At 5.52 the coast- guard reported that one of them...

AT twenty minutes past eleven on the night of the 27th of September, 1951— a very dark night with heavy rain squalls—the coxswain of the Dover life-boat, when on his way along the Eastern Harbour Arm, on private busi- ness to the signal...

On the 15th May the motor yacht Morna, of Bangor, was dragging her anchor in Ballyholme Bay, and was in danger of being driven ashore. A strong northerly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea.

The coastguard reported the...

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 7th July the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Scaurs of Cruden. The weather was fine, but later the S.W. wind freshened, and as there was a fairly heavy swell, it was decided...

Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 10th of February, 1953, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad and four local fishing vessels were still at sea. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 12.38 in a...

AT 4.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1953, the coastguard rang up the honorary secretary at Aberdeen.

He passed on a message, which he had had from a hotel at Muchalls, that a fishing boat was burning flares off...

THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act, of life-saving in 1953 has been won by Coxswain HughNelson,ofDonagha- dee, County Down. The award has been made for the service to the Princess Victoria on the 31st of Jan- uary, 1953, when the...