LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Wick, Caithness-shire. At 2.30 p.m.

on 2nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the trawler Northern Queen of Grimsby had engine failure about thirty eight miles eastnorth- east of Wick, and that her...

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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—16th April.

A small boat with a crew of two had been reported drifting on to the rocks.

The boat had gone ashore and the men had been rescued before the life-boat arrived.—Rewards,...

Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pilot cutter St. Anne, of Preston, was agroundbetween Lytham and Preston docks.

GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...

During a moderate E.S.E. gale, signals of distress were observed at 10.30 P.M. on the llth September. The Civil Service No. 6 Life-boat was immediately launched, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the pleasure yacht Ea/jle, of...

In November, 1944, the self-righting life-beat at Hastings was struck by a very heavy sea and capsized, throwing three of her crew overboard. She came right way up at once, and the other six men hauled the three on board again. As she...

DE C . 8 T H . - TORBAY, DEVON. At 9 A.M. a message was received that the motor fishing boat John Bull, of Torquay, which had gone to sea the previous morning, had not returned. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing with a rough sea. At 9.45 A.M....