LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Shorebam Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.4 P.M. on the llth July the coastguard reported that a boat was in distress four and a half miles E.S.E. of Shoreham Harbour. A moderate S.W.

breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.7 on the evening of the 22nd October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Pern, of Aberdeen, had wirelessed that she had broken down and was driving ashore about three miles south-east of...

Hastings, Sussex.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the llth of March, 1953, the Fairlight coastguard reported that an angler appeared to be in difficulties in a rowing-boat, about two miles south of Hastings pier, and was waving a flag....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At eleven o'clock on thenight of the 8th of July, 1953, the coastguard reported that the S.S.

Libra, of Stockholm, had asked for a boat to land a sick man. No other suitable boat...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—About 12.30 in the afternoon, on the 24th of Sep- tember, 1950, the police reported that the local fishing boat Winner, with a crew of three, was fifteen hours overdue.

All coastguards were...

Lynmoutb, Devon.—At about 7.30 P.M. on the 13th July, 1939, a motor yacht was seen flying a distress signal.

A squally southerly wind was blowing, with a choppy sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Prichard Frederick...

— On the morning of the 21st December, 1933, the honorary secretary saw the local motor fishing boat Avonbeg ashore on the main, north of Arklow harbour.

She made signals of distress, and the motor life-boat John Taylor...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.43 p.m. on nth July, 1965, the east pier watchman reported that a motor boat was burning flares in Pegwell Bay and at 4.50 the lifeboat Michael and Lily Davis put to sea.

There was a strong...