LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 17TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.

Early in the morning a crash was heard by the coastguard, but the weather was foggy and he could see nothing. He made enquiries but learnt nothing. At 9.33 the life-boat honorary secretary...

Fowey, Cornwall.—While the motor life-boat C.D.E.C. was out to the help of the woman who had fallen from Gribben Head on the 7th of August, a wireless message was received at her station from the Polruan coastguard at 5.50 that some boys had...

Glacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.51 on the evening of the 27th of September, 1956, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in need of help off no. 11 Barrow buoy. At 9.10 the Clacton life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring...

At 7.50 P.M. on the 9th July a telephone mes- sage was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Office that the Crosby lightship had reported a fishing boat ashore in a dangerous position near C.2 Black Buoy in the Crosby Channel....

FISHERMAN SIGHTS CASUALTY FROM TREE TOP Swanage, Dorset. At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 23rd of November, 1962, a fisherman reported to the honorary secretary that he had seen, from the top of a tree, a fishing vessel drifting a mile off...

The large life-boat Birmingham, on this station, was launched on the 28th October to the barque Alma, of Malta, which, while lying about a cable's length from the buoy of the West Scroby Sand, had dragged one anchor and had then hoisted...

— The pleasure yacht Iris, of Chester, was seen to be in a dangerous position in the breakers near Portmadoc Bar on the loth August. The Coxswain launched the Life-boat and proceeded to the assistance of the crew. He asked them if they...

— At 3.10 A.M. on the 15th January informa- tion was telephoned from the Pier Head that flares had been seen about one and a half miles from the pier in the direction of the Lowway Buoy.

Putting off in a moderate S.W. gale,...