LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...

Racing dinghies ON AN OVERCAST Sunday morning, May 3, dinghies from several sailing clubs on the River Blackwater had started racing when they were overtaken by deteriorating weather; soon after 1100 the strong westerly breeze was already...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.55 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, a message came from the Warden Point Look-out that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles off Shoeburyness.

At 10.28 the life-boat Greater London,...

On the 21st May it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Lapwing, of Arklow, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of maize, was at anchor off the bar in a sinking condition, having struck on the Blackwater Bank.

Clovelly, Devon. — At 4.18 on the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1952, the Hartland Point coastguard tele- phoned that a boy was reported to be cut off by the tide at Shipload Bay, and at 4:30 the life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...

WEXFORD.— A sudden gale sprung up from the E.N.E., accompanied by snow-showers and a heavy sea, on the morning of the 25th March, and the schooner Perseverance, of Wexford, homeward bound in ballast from Dublin, stranded on Raven Point. The...

St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 5.10 a.m. on 5th December, 1964, the use of the life-boat was requested to transfer a sick person from Herm Island to Guernsey.

At 5.32 the life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal put out into a smooth sea...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.1 on the afternoon of the 23rd December, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Cheshire Coast had reported that she had a small fishing vessel in tow eight and a half miles south of...