LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PENZANCE. — The brigantine Jeune Hortense, of Nantes, bound from Brest for Fowey, in ballast, dragged her anchors during a heavy ground sea on the 17th May, and drove ashore on the Eastern Green just under the Long Rock. The Dora Life-boat...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 4.30 a.m. on 2nd October, 1966, red flares had been sighted in the vicinity of the Hurst Narrows. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings at 5.10 in a strong...

Coxswain's Certificate of Service.

COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to : JOHN C. BYFORD, 6} years coxswain, 15} years second coxswain, and 18} years bowman of the Walton and...

St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.

on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — On the evening of the 31st August the police reported, through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, that a small yacht was in distress off Lavernock Point. She was the motor cruiser Martaban, of Cardiff, with...

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—On the 9th December the Norwegian steamer Kjorrefjord, of Farsund, bound for the Tyne with a general cargo, ran ashore on Whitburn Steel, about two miles north of Sunderland. The wind was only light and the sea smooth...

Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1958, the coxswain heard on his radio that the motor fishing vessel Our Confidence of Bridlington had broken down off Whitby in dense fog. He told the honorary secretary, and...

Portrush, Co. Antrim.—At about 4 P.M. on the llth August, 1939, the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran Point. A moderate...