LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FALMOUTH, CORNWALL.—At 8 P.M. on the 4th February the Life-boat Sob Newbon was launched, intelligence having been received from the coastguard that a vessel was aground on the Black Rock. A moderate wind was blowing from E.N.E., and there...

WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—About 8 A.M. on the 5th May a north-easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by rain and sleet and a rough sea, whereupon several fishing cobles, which had left the harbour earlier in the morning, attempted to return....

During a moderate E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were observed at 10.30 P.M. on the llth September. The Civil Service No. 6 Life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the pleasure yacht Ea/jle, of...

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While the Life-boat Mary Isabella was out for practice on the 31st January, a trawler reported that a schooner was in need ofassistance, most of her sails having been blown away. A strong gale was blowing from the S.W.,...

While a moderate gale was blowing from the N. with a very rough sea, rain, snow and very cold weather, on the morning of the 28th April, the fishing lugger Tally Ho, of Scarborough, was seen making for the bay. On rounding Filey Brigg she...

During a whole S. by E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the 13th January, the 'oxswain was at the Coastguard Look- out, when, at 10.25 A.M., a message was received from Gorleston that a vessel off Gorton was firing a signal for...

COXSWAIN HENRY BLOGG, of Cromer, who recently received the Silver Medal of the Institution for the rescue, last October, of thirty lives from the Italian steamer, Monte Nevoso, has received a postcard from San Diego, California, which says :...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 11.28 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1952, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands asked if the life-boat would go to Fair Isle and bring back a man who had appendicitis. The weather was too bad for a...