LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Between 4 and 5 o'clock on the morning of the 3rd December eleven of the fishing cobles belonging to Whitby put off for fishing, but some hours later the sea increased rapidly and commenced to break heavily right across the entrance to...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the morning of the 7th of May, 1951, five local fishing boats put out; and as one of them was going back the weather got worse. The sea was also getting stronger and the wind increased. So, as one of the four...

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, at the time of the Penarth regatta, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans put out in a rough sea, with a fresh south-easterly breeze blowing and rain, to help...

Nov. 23RD. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX.

An explosion had been reported off Cooden Beach, Bexhill. A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the life-boat searched all night, but found nothing. An increase in the usual...

"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...

JANUARY 29TH-31ST and FEBRUARY 1ST.

- CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.50 A.M. information came to the Cloughey station from the coastguard at Tara that the S.S. Alhena, of Rotterdam, of 5,000 tons, laden with...

DURING the south-westerly gales of ex- traordinary violence, which burst over the south-west and south of England in the second week of July, and lasted for two or three days, eight Life-boats along the south coast were launched, and three...

We had hoped to publish in the current number of the Life-~boat Journal a synopsis of the Wreck Register foi the preceding year—or rather for the first six-months of that period;—but vre Lave been tinable to obtain in time from the...