LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.

CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....

On the 21st February, the brig Phoebe, of Scarborough, was stranded on a sand-bank near Covehithe, on this coast, during stormy weather. The Southwold large life-boat went oft', put 5 of her crew on board the vessel, and assisted in...

MARCH 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.

A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was learned later there had been a small moorland fire on the Sutherland coast across the Moray Firth.- Rewards, £...

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'It happened in seconds'

On Wednesday 24 July my son, Tad...

SCABBOBOTJGH.—During a severe storm on the 28th October, at about 9.30 A.M., the brig Mary, of South Shields, in trying to make the harbour, was driven by the wind and heavy sea on the shore. The Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched, and, after...

Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 3.25 on the morning of the 16th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Ameland, of Gliickstadt, was aground on Holm Sand about three and a half miles east of Lowestoft. She...

Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man and two women had landed at Filey in a dinghy. The man had reported that they had come from the yacht Rissa, which was on fire off...

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