LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wick, Caithness-shire.—At about 1 P.M. on the 23rd December, 1938, avery heavy ground swell got up in Wick Bay and seas were frequently breaking across the harbour entrance.

The fishing fleet was at sea, and as the entrance...

Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...

RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The ketch, Silver Spray, of Lowestoft, laden with machinery and stone, and bound from Guernsey for the North of England, showed signals of distress when about a quarter of a mile E. of Ryde pier, on the night of the 27th...

Clovelly, North Devon - At 6.48 p.m.

on 14th January, 1967, information was received, that a boy was stranded on a rock about 500 yards from the shore at Northcott Mouth, one mile north of Bude. The life-boat William...

MOELFRE.—The schooner .Reaper, of Dublin, bound from. Wicklow for Garstoo, with a cargo of pit-wood, was caught in a gale from the S.W. on the morning of the 25th January, and was driven on the Dulas rocks. The Life-boat Star of Hope put off...

THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10.48 on the morning of the llth August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat had put out earlier in the evening with the owner and his son on board to go fishing and...

Holyhead, Anglesey. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 28th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was clinging to an overturned sailing dinghy one mile off shore between South Stack and Rhosco- lyn Point. At...