LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Newhaven, Sussex.—At 1.23 in the afternoon, on the 13th of January, 1951, the Newhaven Radio station re- ported that the Dutch tug Ganges, tow- ing a barge and a steam hopper from Rotterdam to Southampton, had asked for help. At 1.45...

At 7.30 A.M.

on the 5th November the local fishing cobles Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II put out to the fishing grounds During the morning the wind backed into the north-east and increased to a strong gale, with...

Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was told that three local fishing cobles were at sea in weather which was deteriorating.

There was a strong to gale force...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — In the evening of the 7th of August, 1948, a Dutch yacht, the Duenna, an auxiliary ketch, with twin screws, of 140 tons, was anchored outside the harbour.

She had six on board, including...

PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The Lifeboat John Francis White rendered very valuable assistance to the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, on Easter Sunday morning, the 3rd April. There was a strong wind blowing from the west, and the vessel was...

Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six...

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK. — ON Sunday morning, the 12th November, the brig Vulcan, of Whitstable, during a heavy gale, parted from her anchors, and making sail to clear the pier at the entrance to Yarmouth harbour, ran on the Gorlestonbeach. The...

TWO PEOPLE CUT OFF BY TIDE Dover, Kent. At 5.42 on the evening of the 15th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that two people were cut off by the tide between Dover and St. Margaret's Bay. The life-boat Southern...