LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the evening of the 28th October, a flare was seen in the direction of the Brake Sand. A fresh gale of wind was then blowing from the N.N.E. with rain, and there was a heavy sea on the sand.

The Ramsgate Life-boat was at...

SCARBOROUGH.—On the 3rd August, during a S.E. gale, the fishing yawl Providence, of Lowestoft, went ashore in the bay at low water. In order to save the vessel from being destroyed, when the tide arose Jhe Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched,...

FISHGUARD.—During a heavy gale at N., shortly after midnight of the 20th Feb., the No. 2 Life-boat, The Fraser, was launched to the assistance of the dandy Adventure, of Bridgwater, which vessel was in a dangerous position near the Goodwick...

AYR, N.B.—At about 10 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the 19th December, the brig William Hill, of Dundalk, was seen making for Ayr Harbour, during S.W. gale. She was unmanageable, from loss of the greater part of her canvas and the...

WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—At about 4 A.M.

on the 5th January a rocket was fired from the Wold lightship. The crew of the Husband Life-boat immediately mustered and the boat was1 launched. She went to the lightship, which reported...

Coxswain Henry W. Pearson, an alderman of Deal, who died on 17th November, 1937, at the age of seventy- one, was second coxswain of the Walmer life-boat from 1909 to 1912, when the station was closed, and became the coxswain when the station...

£ HOLYHEAD.—About 7.45 on the evening of Sunday, the 27th January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen in the outer roads burning signals of distress. The steam...

GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—While the Life-boat John Burch was out for exercise on the morning of the 9th January, a steamer was observed apparently on the Scroby Sands. The boat proceeded to the steamer, which proved to be the Helea, of...