LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The brigantine Charles, of and from Great Yarmouth, for Newcastle, with scrap iron, and having a crew of six men, was seen to strike the Barber Sand at about 8 P.M. on the 30th November, during a moderate E.N.E. wind and a...

The schooner | Cynthia, of Montrose, was being towed out of the Tees on the 5th April, 1871, when ' the tow-rope parting, she grounded on the North Gare Sandbank. A strong wind from the E.N.E. was blowing at the...

The barque Maxima, of Swansea, bound from Cardiff to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, showed a signal of distress at 7.45 P.M. on the 21st February during a gale from the S.W. and a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat went to her assistance, and...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—A fishing boat was noticed at anchor three miles north of the pier on the 8th and 9th of December, 1949, and by the afternoon of the 10th she had not moved. As the weather had worsened, and the father...

Margate, Kent - At 7.3 a.m. on ist October, 1966, a yacht was reported aground on the Ridge sandbank half a mile south west of the North Tongue buoy. Although no distress signals had been made a passing ship reported that the yacht had a...

Coxswain Andrew Cunningham, of Crail, Fifeshire, who died on 15th De- cember, 1931, had been an officer of the Life-boat for twenty-seven years. In 1892, at the age of twenty-nine, he was appointed Bowman. Three years later he became second...

Launches 26. Lives rescued 21.

ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 3.8 in the afternoon of the 18th of January, l944, a report was received through the military and the coastguard that a Martinet aeroplane, which had been...

SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...