LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Victoria, Life-boat put! off in a W.N.W. gale on the 5th De- : cember, and rendered important services to the schooner Flora, of Exeter, then in distress near Exmouth Bar..

On the 15th February, during a fresh E. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid proceeded out, in reply to signals from lightships, and found the ketch Richard Willson, of London, bound from Goole to Exmouth with coal, ashore on the...

The steamer JBratland, of Porsgrund, a large steamer of 2,300 tons, stranded on the Cross Sand whilst bound to Grimsby in ballast, on the 3rd May. Information reached Coxswain S. Harris shortly after 9.30 P.M. that the Light-vessels were...

Coxswain George Lisle of Tyne- mouth died on the 6th of December, 1959, at the age of 80. He first joined the Tynemouth crew in 1921. He was second coxswain from 1925 to 1938 and then coxswain for four years. He was awarded the bronze medal...

At 6 A.M. on the 9th January, in smooth but thick weather, the fishing-boats of Johnshaven put to sea. An hour or so later the sea commenced to rise and the S.E. wind increased to a gale, and by 10 o'clock it was so rough that it was...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 7th of November, 1948, the local fishing boat Courage, with a crew of five, was overtaken by bad •weather. The sea was rough in the bay and at the harbour entrance, and when, just before noon...

Walmer, Kent. — At 6.43 in the morning of the 31st of August, 1949, the Deal coastguard reported a mes- sage from the South Goodwin Light- vessel that a yacht was drifting over the Goodwin Sands to the north- east of the lightvessel and was...

THREE RESCUED Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.20 a.m. on yth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat with a crew of three had capsized one mile west of the pier. It was i| hours after high tide, there...