LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. The Dutch motor vessel Caribia, which had gone ashore on the Scroby Sands, and to the help of which both the Caister and Gorleston life-boats had been launched on the 26th and 27th of...

The Institution has received three gifts, amounting to £3, from the sale of six onions..

Prawn trawler Crystal Star started taking on water in the Irish Sea on 18 March and lifeboats from Kilkeel (B class Frank William Walton) and Port St Mary (Trent class Gough Ritchie II) were launched to her aid.

Kilkeel...

WINCHELSEA.—On the 28th January, at about 12.45 P.M., signals of distress were observed to be shown from a vessel opposite No. 31 Tower. The wind was blowing from the S.S.W., accompanied by thick rain, and a heavy sea was breaking at the...

FEBRUARY 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 1.32 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground on the east side of Scroby Sands, but not showing distress signals, and at 2.20 the Gorleston motor lifeboat...

YARMOUTH | 10 DECEMBER
The all-weather lifeboat crew based at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, headed to the aid of two sailors whose yacht was in danger of losing its mast. The yacht had serious rigging failure, leaving the sailors at...

The schooner Jessie, of Liverpool, was stranded off Rhyl, dur- ing a gale of wind from N.N.E., on the 22nd December. She had been observed running before the wind with masts gone and sails flying about in all...

AT 7.20 on the evening of 21st February, 1936, a large trawler was seen to have gone ashore at Brims Ness, at the entrance of the aith in which the life- boat house is situated. The motor life-boat herself, however, the Thomas McCunn, was...