LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Altyre
Shortly after midnight on the 17th-18th January signals of distress were seen burning in the direction of the South Barber Sands.
As soon as it was possible the No. 1 boat Covent Garden was launched and found the S.S....
The S.S. Dundee
On the night of the 20th April the s.s. Dundee, of Dundee, bound, laden, from that port to London, stranded at the mouth of the River Tay, S. by E. of Horseshoe buoy. She carried twelve passengers, and a crew of twenty-two. Her master sent...
Bannprince and the S.S. Ocean Coast
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.3 on the night of the 12th of November, 1955, a message was received from the port radar station that a coaster had been sunk in a collision near Formby light-float. Seven minutes later the life-boat Norman B....
Caragh
Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 11.55 on the night of the 3rd July, 1961, the honorary secretary, while listening to his radio on the trawler wave band,heard a distress call from the yacht Caragh, stating that she was dragging her anchors over the...
Workboat 90
Come and join WORKBOAT THE EUROPEAN TRADE EXHIBITION FOR SMALL COMMERCIAL CRAFT & EQUIPMENT The U.K.'s Small Commercial Craft Industry has expanded to a size that requires its own specialist exhibition - where commercial craft, their...
Category: Advertisement
Invergordon By Dag Pike
THE CHANGING PATTERN of Casualties around the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland has led to the replacement of many traditional lifeboats by the faster inshore lifeboats; they are more suited to the type of casualty involved. In the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kildale and Harley
FEBRUARY 3RD. - BRIDLINGTON, AND THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. About noon a message was received at Bridlington from the coastguard that the S.S. KildaleKildale was being attacked by enemy aeroplanes ten to twenty miles N.E. of Spurn, and that her...
The S.S. Margaret Lockington
FEBRUARY 28TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN. At 4.15 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a steamer was ashore, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at five minutes past five. A southerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Your Letters
Storm Force Club Towards the end of last year, my branch started a Storm Force Club. This is not a group sharing corporate membership, but a club for youngsters who already have or who may be interested in having their own individual Storm...
Category: Correspondence
Dispatch
At dusk on the evening of the 2nd October the schooner Dispatch, of this port, was making for the harbour, when the wind suddenly fell, and she drove over the rocks into the broken water. The master immediately showed a signal of distress,...