LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Swanage, Dorset. At 11.15 on the morning of the 8th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was being heavily pounded by a rough sea while at anchor off Hardfast Point. Because of the state of the weather...

Coverack, Cornwall. At 2 p.m. on 2nd September, 1965, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that the 12- foot dinghy Paris Girl had left Coverack at 10 a.m. intending to return by noon.

There were two people on...

JANUARY 14TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.

At noon the lightkeeper on Little Samphire reported a ship’s raft floating three miles to the N.N.W., and a second raft farther north. A strong N.W. wind was blowing with a heavy breaking...

HARWICH.—On the 2nd December, the Life-boat Spring-well proceeded out about 10.30 P.M., in response to signals flredfrom the Sunk light-ship. On arriving at that light-ship, it was stated that signals had been made from the Kentish Knock....

ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—A vessel was seen in distress at the south end of Eamsey Island, at 8 A.M. on the 18th December. The Augusta Life-boat put off to her, and pulled across the sound through a heavy sea. The vessel had then...

Shortly before noon on the 9th January, the schooner Gwalia, of Drogheda, bound from Liverpool with coal, was observed in the Bay showing signals of distress.

The crew of the Life-boat Brother and Sister were at once...

The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...

On the after- noon of the 13th April the brigantine Amanda, of Newhaven, stranded a short distance from the St. Nicholas Light- vessel, and in response to guns from the latter the Life-boat John Bur eh was launched. When searching for the...