LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.

The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.

—At 1.40 A.M. on the 20th January the coastguard reported that a steamer appeared to be ashore three miles N.E.

of Britannia Pier. A gentle...

Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.25 A.M. on the 8th May news was received from the coastguard that an S O S

The motor life-boat William and Kate Johnston put out at 4.54 A.M. on the 3rd January, as the Hoylake coastguard had tele- phoned that the steamer Landes, of Liverpool, was ashore on the revetment, with a heavy list, and wanted immedi- ate...

Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.25 early on the morning of 10th of January, 1958, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashing lights had been seen nineteen miles north- east-by-nprth of Pentire Head. The no. 2 life-boat...

Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...

Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 10.18 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that the motor schooner Svaerdfisken, of Copen- hagen, was in distress seventy-five miles south-east-by-east of Bard Head and was drifting. At...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 9.20 P.M.

* on the 14th October, 1939, the coastguard reported that the Shambles Lightship had fired guns and rockets.

A strong E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea and rain. At 10...