LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...

RAMSEY, ISLE or MAN.—On the same day, at 7.30 A.M., the Two Sisters Life-boat, stationed at Ramsey, went out during a moderate gale from the E. and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, numbering 5 men, from the schooner John Wesley, of...

DOVER.—A fisherman having reported, on the evening of the 20th of March, that he had seen a vessel ashore near the South Foreland Lighthouse, the Life-boat Henry William Pickersgill, R.A., was launched at 9 P.M., proceeded to her assistance,...

DONNA NOOK.—The Richard Life-boat was launched at 8 A.M. on the 20th September, during a N.E. wind, squally weather and a rough sea, to the assistance of the fishing dandy Aurora, of Hull, which had stranded near Donna...

WEXFORD.— A sudden gale sprung up from the E.N.E., accompanied by snow-showers and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 25th March, and the schooner Perseverance, of Wexford, homeward bound in ballast from Dublin, stranded on Raven Point. The...

Amble, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 15th of March, 1951, the fishing coble Ocean Vanguard was at sea in bad weather. There was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance, too, and she was unable to get in. So about 11.15 the...

Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...

THE centenary of the life-boat station at Sennen Cove, which was estab- lished in 1853, was celebrated by a dinner held at the Land's End Hotel on the 21st of April 1953. A certifi- cate inscribed on vellum was presented by Earl Howe,...