LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CULLERCOATS AND OTHER LlFE-BOATS.

—On the 13th February stormy weather prevailed 'on our north-east coast, and many of-the boats which had proceeded to their fishing-grounds were placed in great jeopardy in returning to...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 9.20 A.M.

on the 16th June a telegram was received from the Point of Ayr stating that a schooner, with all sails blown away, was driving before the gale in the direction of Eamsey Bay. A strong N.W....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At about 3 P.M. on the 23rd October, 1937, the coastguard reported that a barge was in a very dangerous position south of Wellington pier. A S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough...

Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 7.45 Oft the night of the llth of January, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Thorium, of Liver- pool, laden with 600 tons of limestone, had wirelessed from near the Lune Buoy that...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 3rd October the lifeboat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks. The weather was then fine, with fog patches. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 5.35 A.M., and...

Aith, Shetland. — At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 14th of January, 1955, the County Medical Officer of Health rang up to say that a surgeon and a sister from a hospital in Lerwick, who had been sent to Tangwick to attend a woman with...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At two o'clock on the morning of the 1st of February, 1956, a message was re- ceived that the steam trawler Deeside, of Milford Haven, was sending out SOS messages on her wireless ten miles...

AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.

The...