LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 1 A.M.

on the 25th July, the side lights of a vessel were observed near the Barber Sand and it appeared that she was in great danger of stranding, and shortly afterwards flares were seen from the...

brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close to rocks,...

Early in the morning of the 9th January some of the cobles belonging to Cullercoats put to sea, for the pur- pose of fishing, in a S.E. breeze and heavy sea. Shortly afterwards the weather became very much worse and the sea dangerously rough...

— The motor life-boat White Star was launched at 9.15 P.M. on the 27th July, as the coastguard had telephoned that a motor fishing boat was in distress about eighty yards oft the rocks E.S.E. of Kemmaes Head. A moderate N. wind was blowing....

On the evening of the 19th November the Icelandic steam trawler Geysir, of Reykjavik, was in the Pentland Firth, homeward bound from Grimsby. She carried a crew of sixteen and two passengers, one of whom was a girl.

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Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At about 10.10 P.M. on the 18th December, 1938, the coastguard reported distress signals in the Solent, off Yarmouth. A moderate east gale Avas blowing, with a very rough sea, and the weather was very cold. The motor...

Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1953, the motor fishing boat Vigilant, which had been blown ashore from her moor- ings in a gale, was refloated and towed into the River Tees by two men in a small dinghy...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — Just before nine o'clock on the night of the 31st of December, 1950, a local resident informed the life-boat honorary sec- retary that a ship was making morse signals three-quarters of a mile east- north-east of...