LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the morning of the 18th April a vessel was observed stranded on Burnham Flats, but she suddenly disappeared. At 7 o'clock the Life-boat Lily Bird was launched in a heavy sea and a strong N.

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By the death of Mrs. Lallow, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at West Cowes, on 8th March, the Institution has lost one of its most successful and enthusiastic honorary workers. Mrs. Lallow had been a Lifeboat worker for...

On the 1st July two men went fishing in a small motor boat, but got into difficulties, and at 9.38 P.M. the Coastguard received information from a civilian—to whom they had previously arranged to signal if necessary—that the boat was in dis-...

The Life-boat Barbara Fleming was launched at 10 A.M. on the 18th March during a whole northerly gale and very rough sea, in answer to distress signals in Porthdinllaen Bay. The vessel was the ketch James, of Carnarvon, bound from Abersoch...

Just after mid- night on the 18th-19th July news was received that a small motor fishing boat, with four visitors on board, was missing. The boat had last been seen near the harbour bar. She had no compass, and, as a thick fog had come on,...

Two fishing cobles put to sea from Filey at 4 A.M. on the 15th November, but became separated in the darkness. One of them returned at 9.30 A.M. and re- ported that the other, the Heather, carrying a crew of three, had not been seen for some...

— On the morning of the 29th December, as the local motor fishing coble Britannia was at sea, and a very heavy ground swell was breaking across the mouth of the haven, making entry difficult and dangerous, it was decided to send out the...

At 8 A.M. on the 16th February the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Palling coastguard station.

The tide was then half flood, and there was a slight swell. A moderate...