LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Three cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 22nd April, and at 8 A.M. one of them returned, as the sea was rapidly grow- ing. The other two—the Robert and Mary and the Brotherly Love—reached the roads about 10 o'clock, and lay...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.50 on the 29th of June, 1953, the Walton- on-the-Xaze coastguard rang up to say that the German steamer Dorte, of Stade. had taken in tow a yacht which had been in difficulties on the North East Gunfleet Sands...

On Sunday, the 16th October, the steam-ship Ontario, of Liverpool, struck on the Hasborough Sand, on the Norfolk eoa,st, during a strong breeze from the W.N.W. The Caister life-boat went off to her assistance ; but her services were declined...

APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.

While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...

DUNGENBSS,KENT.—About 5.30 A.M. on the 26th April the Coastguard watchman sent a message to the Life-boat Station that a four-masted barque was ashore in West Bay. The Coxswain promptly assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat R.A.O.B....

Wicklow. — On the evening of the 17th of May, 1950, the local fishing boat C. S. Parnell, with a crew of four, left for the fishing ground five miles south of Wicklow. The weather grew bad, a fresh north-easterly wind causing a rough sea....

Longhope, Orkneys.—At 10.30 on the night of the llth of April, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Gava, of Aber- deen, wrhich had a crew of thirteen, had reported that she had gone ashore at Duncansby Head....

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...