LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 8TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.

At 9.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on Redcar Rocks, N.E. of the pier.

A little later it was learned that the vessel was the Admiralty tug Amsterdam. The...

On the 7th April, the schooner Oregon, of Stone- haven, on entering the river Tees, ran ashore on the South Gare Sand, at the entrance of the river, where, striking heavily, she filled and sank. Some steam-tugs at- tempted to approach her ;...

BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the evening of the 4th April, 1881, information was brought from the Coastguard Station that the Bell Buoy, a vessel which is placed about two miles off the shore to warn vessels off the Stullmartin Reef, had...

HRH The Princess Anne, has recently had the opportunity to inspect two of the RNLI's most up-to-date lifeboats. At Brixham (left), on a visit to open the new HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre, she walked down King's Quay to... - View image in PDF

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WALMER, NORTH DEAL AND KINGSDOWNE.

—At about 2.45 on the morning of the 2nd September, signal guns and rockets were fired by the East Goodwin Light-vessel. Signals were also fired by the South Sand Head Light-ship and by a...

SWANSEA.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 29th April, three oyster skiffs— the Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah—were observed from the shore to be in distress off the Mumbles Head. The force of the gale had carried away their spars and...

The Mersey class Frank and Lena Clifford of Stourbridge returns to New Quay pier on the day of her naming ceremony with Mr and Mrs Grice aboard, together with the coxswain Winston Evans and mechanic Mervyn Thomas. Photo Carol... - View image in PDF