LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Coast- guard -watchman observed flares from a vessel at 3.30 A.M. on the llth March about a quarter of a mile to the south- ward. He at once informed the Cox- swain of the Life-boat and it was decided to launch the No. 1 Bolton. There...

At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.

Her cargo had...

JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.

At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a motor yacht had broken down just off the Brake sands. There was no wind and the sea was smooth.

At 10.18...

SEATON CAREW.—On the forenoon of the 14th September, when it was blowing hard at N.E., a fishing boat of West Hartlepool got involved among the breakers near the North Gare, and exhibited signals of distress, being unable to get off shore...

During a strong N.E. breeze and very heavy sea on the 4th April a trawling smaok, named the Evolution, of Lowestoft, missed stays and drove on to the North Beach. As her position was a dangerous one, the crew of the Life-boat Keniwell were...

Early on the after- noon of the 7th December the Coast- guard reported that a motor yacht west of the jetty appeared to be in distress.

A strong N.E. breeze was blowing with a heavy sea, and hail showers. The Motor...

DEC. 1ST. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM.

At 11.10 A.M. a fishing boat was seen drifting about three miles E.S.E. of Sunderland. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Elizabeth Newton - on...