LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

At 10 A.M. on the 9th March, the sloop Osprey, of Shields, whilst on a voyage from Shields to Dunbar, encountered a strong northerly gale, and, when off Berwick, sprang a leak. Finding himself in a sinking state, the master of the sloop bore...

At 8.20 A.M. on 30th January a message was received from the Coastguard Station that the East Goodwin Light Vessel had reported a steamer ashore to the N.W. of the Light Vessel. The Motor Life-boat Prudential put out and found the vessel to...

Shortly after midnight on the 10th - llth January, information was received by telephone that two men were adriffc in a boat. As a moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 were...

— A telephone message was received from arnoustie coastguard station at 6.50 P.M. on the 12th August that a small rowing boat with one man on board was in danger of being swamped about three miles S.W. of the station. The weather was fine...

Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...

Walmer, Kent.—At 11.5 on the night of the 15th of October, 1955, the Ramsgaie life-boat put off to search for a ten-feet dinghy which had been missing from Broadstairs, with one man on board, since four o'clock. She searched widely in...

Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 10.19 on the night of the 12th of July, 1956, a representative of Messrs. MacBrayne Ltd., Port Ellen, telephoned to say that a French trawler was in diffi- culties off Ardbeg. Conflicting in- formation had been...

Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1957, the coxswain was told that a small boat was in difficulties close inshore near the Hartlepool breakwater. He went out in the pilot cutter to in- vestigate, but...