LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

18th July. A motor boat had caught fire, but another motor boat took off the crew. — Rewards, £5 17s. 6d..

During a heavy N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 29th October, the schooner Volant, of Kilkeel, which was sheltering in Moelfre Bay, began to drag her anchors towards the shore. She was bound from IQJkeel to Liverpool with a' cargo...

31st October. A steamer had stranded near the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, but she floated off again.—Rewards, £26 4*. 6d..

Ramsgate, Kent. — 12th July. A small yacht had stranded on the Brake Sand, but floated off.—Rewards, £3..

Shoreham Harbour, and Worthing, Sussex.

—On the afternoon of the 30th May, 1939, a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...

Galway Bay, Galway.—At 6 P.M. on the 1st August, 1939, a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with...

Selsey, Sussex. — During the after- noon of the 4th of August, 1952, a motor launch anchored about half a mile west-south-west of Selsey Bill, and the life-boat's assistant motor mechanic put out to her in his own boat. He learnt that...

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