LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The same Life-boat was also called out in very bad weather on the 8th October, a dismasted vessel having been observed about three miles east of the harbour. The boat reached her in about an hour's time and found she was the barque...

In response to signals of distress at 8.30 P.M. on the 18th January, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched. There was a whole W.N.W. gale at the time, and the sea was very heavy. Having proceeded in the direction of the signals,...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About nine hi the night, on the 13th of August, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a resident had reported a yacht on the Pye Sands.

Later it was learned that the auxiliary...

AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...

DEC. 3 R D . - WALMER, KENT. The coastguard had reported flares, and the lifeboat put out, in a southerly gale, with very heavy seas and hail squalls. She found the Greek steamer Aghia Eirini. The steamer did not need the life-boat‘s help...

THE WHTTBY FISHING BOATS AGAIN Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the early morning of the 30th of April, 1947, several fishing boats put out to move their crab-pots into deep water as stormy weather was pending. About 10.30 two of the boats were seen ...

Moelfre, Anglesey. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of Septem- ber, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a tender engaged on diving operations had dragged her anchor in Benllech Bay. One engine had stopped and...

Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...