LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 12TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.

A glider had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.

- Rewards, £16 13s..

By the death of Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham; on 17th May last, at the age of ninety-five, the Institution lost a friend who, in spite of her great age and the loss of her sight fifty years ago, found means to help it until her...

WEXFORD.—On the 25th April, at 11.30 A.M., the s.s. Montagu, of Liverpool, was observed ashore on the south side of the East Bar Channel. The Civil Service Life-boat was at once launched, and was taken in tow by the steam-tug Ruly, which had...

— At 8 P.M. on the 19th January the watchman re- ported that a vessel had stranded on the "Inner Binks," about one mile S.E.

of the Watch House. Robert Cross, the Coxswain of the Life-boat, at once went to the...

Yealm River and Plymouth, South j Devon.—The s.s. Veghtstroom, of Amster- dam, whilst bound from Fowey to Amsterdam with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Mewstone at theentrance to Plymouth Harbour on the 21st November. Information of...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk. — During the morning of the 17th September the coastguard reported that a small open boat under sail two miles south of Aldeburgh was making very heavy weather. A moderate to fresh squally south breeze was blowing, with a...

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.— During the morning of the llth June, 1938, the three-masted motor schooner Agnes Craig, of Dublin, ran aground on the N.W. side of Blackwater Bank, about fourteen miles from Rosslare Harbour.

Cadgwith, Cornwall. — About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of August, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary, Mr. J. F. Gibson, saw a sailing dinghy go ashore at Sperric Cove. At 1.30 the life-boat Guide of Dunkirk was launched...