LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 18th December last, the brig Eliza, of Montrose, drove from her anchors in Yarmouth roads and went on shore, during a violent gale from E.S.E. and heavy sea. The Gorles-ton seamen's life-boat was immediately launched and succeeded...

Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She...

Nov. 30TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.49 P . M the coastguard reported red rockets and flares from a vessel bearing E.N.E. from Caister.

A W.S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...

On the morning of the 23rd December, a message was received from the harbour- master at Wexford that a vessel was ashore on Wexford bar. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and rain. The Motor Life- boat K.E.C.F. left her...

Peel, Isle of Man.—About 4.30 in the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties off Peel, and the life-boat Helen Sutton was launched at 5.15. A strong, squally south-west wind was...

Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.50 on the morning of the 28th of May, 1953, a retired fisherman told the life-boat coxswain that he had heard on his wireless set a message from the fishing boat May Lily, of liridlington, which had broken down...

On the 29th January the brig Veritos, of Antwerp, was observed with .signals of dis- tress flying, near the Manacles Rocks, on the Cornish Coast, during a whole gale from W.N.W. The life-boat Western Commer- cial Traveller at once put off,...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 23rd of July, 1960, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched on exercise in a light westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was half ebb. Soon after the life-boat had...