LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHEN the blue of the sky can be seen no more, And the sunlight fades from the distant shore; When a murmur runs in the rising wind, Like some lone bird that is lost and blind; And the cloud-bank lying so low astern Is counterfeiting the...

Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the Kirkwall coastguard reported that a Norwegian fishing vessel was ashore on Yasa Skerry and that another in attempting to help her had also run aground. The life-boat...

FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At3 P.M. on the 29th April, just before high water, the yacht Formosa, of Carmarthen, started with four men on board to try to save some drowning cattle, which had strayed on to the Cefn Sidan Sand and had been...

The s.s. Loch Lomond, of Dundee, whilst bound from the Tyne to Marseilles with a cargo of 3,600 tons of coal, stranded on the North Holm Sand on the 8th November.

A strong westerly breeze was blowing at the time, with a...

WINTERTON (NORFOLK).—During thick and bitterly cold weather on the morning of the 23rd January, the wind blowing a strong gale from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow squalls, flares were shown by a vessel which ran aground about a mile...

On the afternoon of the 21st April the trawler Norman Craig, of Ramsgate, on passage from Shoreham to Fleetwood, sailed into Swanage Bay with her rigging in disorder, and her sails half up. A moderate south-east breeze was blowing, with a...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.37 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say there were two canoes half a mile east of the pier, one of which had capsized, and that three boys were in the...

ARKLOW, IRELAND.—A life-boat station in connection with the National Life-boat Institution has been founded at Arklow, on the East Coast of Ireland and a life-boat on Mr. Peake's design, 30-feet long, and rowing 10 oars, double banked,...