LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—The Lifeboat George Pooley was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 26th February and proceeded to the schooner Maria Farleigh, of Fowey, bound from Glasgow for Cardiff, which was in a dangerous position, embayed on a lee shore...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Wold light-vessel on the night of the 26th April, the Life-boat Margaret was launched at 11.30. A south-westerly wind was then blowing and the sea was moderate. Proceeding in the direction...

PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 20th February, while a strong breeze was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea, the pilots observed a schooner strike on the Causeway rocks.

The crew of the Life-boat...

During the evening of the 4th November a cargo steamer was reported by the Coastguard to be at anchor about five miles from the station with the " uncon- trollable " signal hoisted; and later it was seen that she had hoisted a...

Early in the morning of the 2nd May, during a W.S.W. gale, a small ketch was observed at anchor close to a lee shore in Church Bay, and at 10 o'clock she hoisted a signal of distress. A steamer, making for Holyhead, was seen proceeding...

During a strong N.E. gale in the evening of 8th January one of the anchor chains, to which the schooner Unity, of Carnarvon, was lying at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay, parted. There were four persons on board the schooner, and...

The ketch County of Anglesea, of Carnarvon, whilst bound from that port to Rhosneigir with a cargo of bricks, was seen at 8.50 P.M., on the 15th March, drifting down towards the cliffs of Trecastell.

The weather was not...

Penlee, Cornwall.—Early in the morning of the 21st January, 1939, the Belgian trawler Paul Therese, of Ostend, broke from her moorings in Newlyn Harbour and drifted out to sea. Her crew of six were asleep and unconscious of their danger. A...