LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HORNSEA.—On the morning of Tuesday, the 8th November, during a moderate E. gale and a heavy sea, rockets were fired in quick succession by the fourmasted ship Earl of Beaconsfield, of London, bound from Calcutta for Hull with a cargo of...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—In response to signals of distress, during thick weather, a moderate breeze from the S.W., and a rough sea, the Life-boat British Workman was launched, at 8.30 A.M. on the 31st December, and proceeded to the Hasborongh Sand...

LITTLEHAVEN.—The smack Sarah, of Milford, bound from Solva to Pembroke Dock, laden with grain, showed a signal of distress, as she was dragging her anchor, while a strong gale was blowing from N.W., with a heavy sea at 11.30A.M.

Ashford held a Concert.

Barnes held a series of Dances, which were a great success. East Sheen held a Dance, and a Dance was organized at Erith by the local sea scouts.

Greenwich held a Whist Drive and...

— The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 23rd February, as a whole N. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and a snow blizzard, and some fishing boats were still at sea. She found the Scarborough fishing boat S. B...

On the evening of the 30th November the herring drifter Maid of Erin, of Porta- vogie, returning to port from herring fishing, had engine trouble when about two miles N.E. of Maryport. She carried a crew of four. She dropped her anchor,...

FISHING BOAT WITH FOULED PROPELLER Stromness, Orkneys.—At 4.27 in the afternoon of January 27th, 1947, a fishing boat was seen making distress signals near the Kirk Rocks in Hoy Sound. The breeze, from the south- west, was light, but...

MOTOR PLEASURE-BOAT BROKEN DOWN Torbay, Devon.—At 6.43 in the evening of the 7th of April, 1947, the Brixham coastguard reported that a motor pleasure boat had broken down three miles off Berry Head and was making signals of distress. A...