LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BARMOUTH.— On the 27th January, during thick weather and a strong N.W.

wind, a small steamer signalled for a pilot, but the sea was too rough for an ordinary boat to cross the bar. The vessel was evidently a stranger, and...

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Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 6th of November, 1954, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a ship had run ashore two hundredyards east of Beeston Regis. At 7.15 the life-boat Forester's Centenary was launched....

A strong S.W.

gale was blowing on the 20th February with a rough sea, and at about 11 A.M.

a message was received from Cove by telephone that a trawler was in a dangerous position, dragging her anchor.<...

Lerwick, Shetlands. At 5.50 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ertnan, of Kristiansund, whose position was twenty-two mile seast of Bressay Light, had asked for a...

EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat William and Mary was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 31st August to the assistance of the fishing-cutter Mystery, of Brixham, while a strong S.S.W. wind was blowing accompanied by a rough sea. The vessel had struck on...

Weymouth, Dorset. At 5.24 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the coastguard saw a yacht firing red flares three and a half miles south of Lulworth Cove. There was a westerly wind of gale force, and a rough sea. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke...