LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ALNMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The rig Fortuna, of Eiga, stranded on Birling arr Bocks, on the morning of the 8th anuary. On the following morning three f her crew left in the ship's boat, andreached the shore, five others were rescued by...

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—Early on the morning of the 25th January, the barque Thorne, of and from Liverpool, bound for Adelaide with a general cargo, which had been riding out the gale in the bay for two or three days, showed signals of...

At 10.30 P.M.

on the 7th January the Coxswain of the Life-boat Christopher Brown received information by telephone from the light- keeper at Trwyn Dhu Lighthouse, that a vessel in close proximity to the Dutch- man Bank was...

At 8 P.M. on the 25th March it was reported that the Bull Light-vessel was firing rockets, and in response the crew of the Life- boat were assembled, and the boat proceeded to her. On arrival it was found that a collision had occurred be-...

By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...

Plymouth, Devon.—The Motor Life- boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 9.5 P.M. on the 27th October to the help of the ketch Millom Castle, of Plymouth. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy and confused sea, and the...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 24th of De- cember, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Virginia, of Panama, had run ashore one mile west of Atherfield but had not made any distress signals....

Aldeburgh Suffolk.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 4th of February, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone ashore two miles north of Orfordness. At 8.40 the No.

1 life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched. There...