LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Lerwick, Shetland*.—6th March, 1939.

A trawler was in distress and her crew had landed on the uninhabited island of Hascosay, but they were taken off by another trawler.—Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..

NOVEMBER 7TH. - SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. A ship was sinking near the Nore Light-vessel, but when the life-boat arrived she had sunk. Some of her crew had been rescued by the light-vessel. - Rewards, £7 7s. 9d.

GREAT YARMOUTH.—The Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at 4 A.M. on the 19th April, in consequence of a vessel being observed ashore on the Scroby Sands. It was blowing hard from the E.N.E., with a considerable sea breaking on the shoals. The...

During a heavy gale from the S.W. on the 4th December, the intelligence was received at Castletown that the schooner Vision, of Drogheda, had struck on a reef of rocks near Strand Hall, about two and a half miles from Castletovvn. The crew...

About 4.30 P.M. on 24th October, during a strong N.N.E. breeze with a rough sea, infor- mation was received through the Coast- guard that the motor boat Mascot was in difficulties off Sands Head, and later it was reported that two men from...

Ix November 1891, Mr. B. J. New- combe was elected a member of the committee of the Howth, Dublin, life-boat station. Eight years later, in January 1900, he was appointed honorary secretary. He served in that office for forty-five years,...

Hilbre Island, Cheshire.—Shortly before 6 P.M. on the 23rd July information was received from Hilbre, through the Mersey Dock Board, that a yacht was in distress on Salisbury Bank. A strong, squally breeze was blowing from the N.N.W., with...

St Helier, on the Channel Island of Jersey, is the RNLI's most southerly lifeboat station. A Tyne lies afloat alongside a pontoon just outside the 'cill', which keeps enough water in the marina basin for local and visiting yachts... - View image in PDF