LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—On the 8th August the Life - boat Pendoclc Neale rescued the crew, consisting of two men, of the smack Earriette, of Barnstaple, bound from Swansea for Hayle with coal.

The vessel had gone ashore on the...

WHITBY.—At about 5.30 P.M., on the 3rd of May, the sloop Wear, of Sunderland, bound from Hartlepool for Walcott with coal, while attempting to enter the harbonr in a very heavy sea, missed the entrance, became unmanageable, drifted into the...

ST. ANNE'S.—Signals having been shown, and a three-masted vessel having been observed on the Horse Bank, during a strong gale of wind from the N.W. and a very heavy sea, the Nora, Royds Lifeboat was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 26th...

BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.—A strong pale sprung up from the N.E. on the 27th February, accompanied by a heavy sea which broke right across the entrance to Cluny harbour. A fishing-lugger, whilst coming in, was struck by one of the heavy seas and...

At 8 P.M. on the 21st November the steam drifter Bruces, of Peterhead, bound from Yarmouth to Peterhead, stranded owing to hazy weather on the Beacon Rocks between the old harbour and the South Outlet. In response to her signals of distress...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat told the second coxswain that the weather had made conditions on the outer harbour bar verv dangerous and that the local fishing boat...

Walmer, Kent. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 25th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that two men in a fishing dinghy off the Goodwin Fork buoy were un- able to make headway and were drifting northwards on...

ESCORT FOR FISHING BOAT IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the conditions at the harbour bar were very bad because of heavy seas and the state of the tide. As the local fishing boat Margaret Jane was...