LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CADGWITH, CORNWALL,.—Minute guns having been heard at 9 P.M. on the 20th of March, the Joseph Armstrong Life-boat was very promptly launched, four minutes only being occupied in getting her afloat, and proceeded to the S.W., in which...

On the morning of the llth February the Ferryden fleet of fishing boats, about fifty in number, left Montrose for the fishing grounds, the wind blowing then a moderate breeze from the N. About 11 o'clock the wind increased, and a heavy...

GREENORE, Co. LOUTH.—The schooner yacht Colleen, of Leith, lost one of her anchors and had the other disabled in a very heavy squall on the 27th August, and stranded about fifty yards W. of the Earl Kock, in Carlingford Lough. In response to...

On the morning of the 25th February signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Mid Scroby Sand. A heavy sea was running at the time, and a strong wind was blowing from the N. The Lifeboat Beauchamp was launched at about 3...

Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 7.33 on the evening of the 15th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported a fishing boat burning flares off Caernarvon Bar.

At 8.0 the life-boat Charles Henry Ashley was launched. There was...

From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...

Bonlmer, Northumberland. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 10th of August, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Claire Rita of Banff was aground off Hauxley Head. At 5.57 the life- boat Clarissa...

The Walmer life-boat was being launched down her skids in December, 1944, when a hook slipped and she ran suddenly into a rough sea with only the motor mechanic, C. P. Cavell, on board. When he felt her afloat he came on deck to find himself...