LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—8th June, 1938. The sounding of a horn in a dense fog had been reported, but no vessel in distress was found.—Rewards, £7 16s..

BARMOUTH AND PWLLHELI.—On the 15th March a vessel was reported ashore on St. Patrick's Causeway, while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.S.W. with a heavy sea. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Gibb was launched at 9 A.M. and boarded the...

Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...

. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.

—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...

JULY 22ND. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. During the afternoon four young men, holiday visitors from Coventry, went out on three metal floats from Prestatyn. The sea was rough and a strong south-westerly wind was blowing.<...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.45 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1959, a message was received that a vessel, which had been in a collision, was sinking near Little Nore Sands. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was...