LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—-About dark on the evening of the 29th April the schooner John, of Runcorn, bound from Penmaenmawr to Dublin, was observed in a dangerous position in Moelfre Bay, during a strong gale from the...

On the 17th May the Life-boat Sarah, Tancred ren- dered valuable assistance to the yacht Nicomi, of Dalkey, which was in great dis- tress off Bray Head in a fresh gale at E.N.E..

12th August. The motor yacht Pathfinder, of New York, got ashore, but the crew were rescued by the Board of Trade rocket apparatus from Reculvers.—Rewards, £14 4s..

Newhaven, Sussex. — On the 26th of March, 1951, the Newhaven life- boat rescued the crew of six of the Belgian trawler Christiane II, of Ostend.

Rewards: to Coxswain William JHarvey, the 'thanks of the Institution on...

Coxswain Henry W. Pearson, an alderman of Deal, who died on 17th November, 1937, at the age of seventy- one, was second coxswain of the Walmer life-boat from 1909 to 1912, when the station was closed, and became the coxswain when the station...

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 9th of September, 1957, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Trimingham. At 5.32 the no. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg was launched in a slight sea. There...

Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.54 on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a barge had broken down off the harbour and that her steering gear had been carried away. At two o'clock the life-boat Rosa...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.20 on the night of the 29th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen in Broad Bay.

At 9.45 the life-boat William and Harriot put out. The sea was rough with a...