LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.

wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...

On 30th January at 9 A.M., in consequence of a signal from the Hock Lighthouse, at the entrance of the Mersey, that a ship was in distress at the back the banks on "Square 43," the Lifeboat Willie and Arthur proceeded down the...

ON 10th February last, the Angle, Milford Haven, Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the fishing smack Arrowvale, of Milford. The owners, Messrs.

Peter Hancock & Sons, have sent the Institution £2 2s., in...

A party of four men and six women, students from the University, had an exciting adventure near Aberystwyth on the 17th April. They left Aber- ystwyth in the morning in two of the college racing boats to proceed to Monks Cave, a resort about...

Swanage, Dorset.—On the morning of the 13th July a visitor set out from Boscombe in a small boat with theobject of rowing to Swanage. He had no knowledge of the tides and got into difficulties. At 3.20 P.M. he was seen by the Swanage...

On the 17th October the steam trawler Welsh Prince, of and for North Shields, laden with fish, stranded on the rocks known as Limpet Hills, in foggy weather.

The wind was blowing from the S.E. and there was a heavy surf on...

At 5 A.M. on the 7th March the Coastguard reported that a vessel in the roads was making signals of distress. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Civil Service No. 1, were promptly assembled and the boat pro- ceeded to the vessel in question....

At about noon on the 7th December it was reported that a schooner was close to the Brake Sands and that her square sails had blown away, and that she was' in difficulties. When near to the edge of the Sand the vessel tried to stay, but...