LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCT. 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.

Distress signals had been reported, and the life-boat was out for nine hours in a strong gale, with a rough sea, but found nothing.

-Rewards, £18 6s. 6d..

Lifeboat revisited I read with interest the news article 'Reunited in New Zealand' featured in the Winter 1995/96 issue of THE LIFEBOAT.

The reference to Greymouth caught my eye. This was where my daughter Julie...

WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...

HAVING HEARD from Aberdovey Coastguard at 1820 on August 10, 1974, that a member of the public had reported seeing someone falling out of a motor cabin cruiser crossing [Dovey Bar to seaward, Aberdovey honorary secretary immediately...

CAISTER.—On the morning of the 23rd February, 1896, the Cockle Light-vessel fired guns and rockets. The Life-boat Covent Garden was taken out of her house, and while she was being launched a coastguardman arrived and informed the coxswain...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—On the 4th of December, 1950, the Belgian trawler Yarmouth, bound for Ostend with white fish and carrying acrew of eleven, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. There she wirelessed for...

PBNZANCE.—The wind suddenly shifting from N.E. to W.S.W., on the morning of the 29th March, the barque Antarctic, of Swansea, homeward bound from London, in ballast, and lying windbound in Mount's Bay, became embayed and was in a...

Coxswain William Farqhar. Thurso Received the Bronze Medal l"t In- •...outstanding skill .mil seamanship...' during a sen ice to a hiirmnj; chemical lanker. which helped to prevent u major I'Lulnyical disaster.