LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWHAVEN AND EASTBOURNE. — The paddle-steamer Normandy, of and for Newhaven from Dieppe, with 130 passengers and a general cargo, stranded on a reef of rocks called the Ledge, opposite Holywell, near Eastbourne, in a dense fog, a light S....

The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 2.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, 1939, the watchman reported that a trawler had gone ashore on the Inner Binks. A light N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight swell, and the weather was foggy. The motor life-boat...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S.

of Walton Pier, was flying distress signals. A moderate easterly gale was...

.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...

Mr. John Lewis, of Holyhead, died on 10th March, at the age of sixty-four, only two months after he had been compelled to retire from the honorary secretaryship of the Holyhead life-boat station on account of ill-health. He had held that...

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—During the afternoon of the 1st March it was learned that a boat was showing distress signals. A squally E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with showers of snow, and the sea was choppy and increasing. The motor life-boat...

New Quay and Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.

—At 1.40 P.M. on the 31st May, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Peggy, of New Quay, with two men on board, had put out at 2 A.M.

and was long...

Boulmer, Northumberland.—During the morning of the 27th June, 1938, eight motor fishing cobles from Boulmer and Alnmouth were caught at sea by bad weather. All the life-boat's officers were at sea, and the Clarissa Langdon .