LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

Early this year at a private ceremony held at Longhope, Orkney, posthumous awards for gallantry were presented by The Duke of Atholl, Convenor of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a member of the Committee of Management of the Royal...