LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the night of the 10th June, signals from the Newarp, Cockle, and St.

Nicholas Lightships indicating a vessel in distress were observed from Caister.

The surf Life-boat Godsend was launched, and...

CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The barque Beaconsfield, of Brammen, laden with teak from Rangoon for Greenock, via Falmouth, stranded on the ridge inside North Bock in a strong S.S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 9th April. She fired signals of...

Shortly before 7 A.M. on the 3rd July a tele- phone message was received from Cemlyn stating that a steam trawler was ashore at Carmel Point, and asking that the Holyhead Life-boat might be sent. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland...

St. Albans made a very special effort to make Century Life-boat Day, which was held on 19th July, an outstanding success. A Life-boat was stationed in the Market Square during the forenoon, and it toured the outer areas of the city during...

The Life-boat Lizzie Ellen was launched on the 12th January to the assistance of a vessel which was being towed into Mount's Bay with a distress signal flying. Before they reached the vessel she anchored, and the steamer which had been...

Criticisms of the absence of the Sunderland life-boat when a lifeguard was drowned in tragic circumstances near the Cat and Dog steps at Roker last August were refuted at the inquest on the lifeguard, Mr. John Ramsay. He had gone out to...

STRANDED IN FOG Anstruther, Fife. At 9.15 a.m.

on 22nd May, 1964, a representative of a boatbuilders' firm at St. Monance asked if the life-boat would help the motor fishing vessel Integrity of St. Monance which had...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 2nd of December, 1955, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat heard a wireless distress call from a French trawler in the direction of Skipsea. At 11.55 the life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield...