LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. put out at 11.30 A.M. on the 29th February, as the watchman had reported that the steamer Wexfordian was ashore on Wexford Bar. Mr. W. J. B.

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New Year Honours Among the awards announced in the New Year Honours list were: Knights Bachelor Rear Admiral Morgan Morgan Giles, DSO QBE GM. For political service. Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan Giles has been a member of the Committee of...

— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...

The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.10 A.M. on the 29th December, as the sea was very rough, the weather was thick, and several fishing cobles were at sea. She went to the back of the pier and fell in with the Bertha May,...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—Just after four in the afternoon of 21st October, 1939, a police inspector and ambulance men arrived at the life-boat station, and shortly afterwards a message was received from the coastguard that the...

Aberdeen.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 29th of January, 1956, the coast- guard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Stone- haven radio station that the trawlers York City, of Grimsby, and Junella, of Hull, had picked up...

Ramsgate, Kent.—In the same dense fog on the night of the 28th of Novem- ber, 1948—as five boats which had put out with fishing parties had not returned—the life-boat coxswain and another man burned flares at the East Pier. By their help...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.-—At 3.15 in the morning of the 28th of January, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor ship Hervor Eratt, of Gothen- burg, of 1500 tons, bound for Sweden with coke, had reported that she was ashore at...