LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Hartlepool's 44ft Waveney lifeboat The Scout launched on December 4, 1983, under the command of Coxswain Robert Maiden to go to the help of a fishing boat Sea Spell whose engine was giving trouble. There was a fresh to strong breeze...

The s.s. Long- newton, of Sunderland, when bound for London on the 19th January, struck the rocks outside Seaham Har- bour. She proceeded about a mile to sea, when she was seen to put back and hoist a signal for "immediate...

October 20th, at 5 P.M.

The schooner Fantee, of Hamburg, bound from that port to Shields, was wrecked on the Tay Bank, 8 miles to leeward of St.

Andrew's. It was blowing a gale from the S.E. with, as...

Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—10th January. A steam trawler had been reported to be dragging her anchor, but was not in need of help.—Rewards, Caister, £43 7s. 6d.; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, £28...

Buckie, Banffshire.—21st June, 1938.

A vessel had been reported to be burning flares, but she could not be found, and it seems probable that the flares were lights on a fishing boat;— Rewards, £10 6s..

FEBRUARY 22ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.

A steamer had gone aground, but she was not found and was apparently towed away before the arrival of the life-boat. - Rewards, £13 11s. 6d..

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THE General Post Office is issuing a set of postage stamps to mark the ninth international life-boat conference being held in Edinburgh in June 1963. The stamps will be in the denominations of 2|d., 4d. and Is. 6d. and will be on sale...