LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Advanced search

Skylark

DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 1.47 P.M. and found three fishermen on board the boat Skylark, of Shoreham. Her engine had broken down. The life-boat towed her to harbour, arriving at 2.39 P.M. - Rewards, £8 14s. 6d..