LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

RUNSWICK.—At about 4 P.M. on the 7th Apiil a pilot boat was seen making for the shore. A heavy gea was then breaking on the bar, and the boat would evidently run considerable danger in attempting to cross it. It was therefore decided to take...

DUNGARVAN, Co. WATERFORD. On the 12th January, at 5.30 P.M., the fishing lugger Shamrock, of Peel, arrived at Ballinacourty and anchored about a hundred yards from the fishery pier. At about 8.30 one of her anchors parted and the vessel...

At 6 A.M. on the 4th April nine of the cobles belonging to Filey went off fishing, in a moderate N.E. breeze. Later the sea increased very much, and at 9 A.M. one coble returned and reported the sea outside was very rough for the cobles....

At about 9 A.M. on the 6th March during a strong N.E. gale signals of distress were observed from the brigantine Walter J.

Cummins, of Irvine, which was at anchor about one-and-a-half miles to the north- east of the harbour...

At about 5 A.M. on the 5th March signals of dis- tress were made by a vessel on the West Scar Bocks, about 400 yards from the shore. The Life-boat Fifi and Charles was launched and proceeded to her. She proved to be the steamer Clydesdale,...

morning of the 30th October information was re- ceived from the coastguard, that a barge was driving off St. Margaret's Bay in a dismasted condition, and making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 4 were...

Mr. R. B. Scott, Motor Mechanic at New Brighton.

BY the death, on 23rd July at the age of sixty-two, of Mr. Kalph Brown Scott, Chief Motor Mechanic of the Life-boat at New Brighton on the Mersey, a Lifeboatman with a very...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. —• At 10.44 in the morning of the 15th of September, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a fishing vessel in Penrhyn Bay was driving ashore, and the motor life-boat Thomas and Annie Wade Richards was...