LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1952, the whaler Paul, of Dover, with three boys from Dover College on board, was blown out of the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 3.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...

NOVEMBER 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.2 in the afternoon a message from H.M.S.

Lundy, which was anchored off Deal, was received through the Deal coastguard, that a cutter from the Lundy, with a crew of seven, had been engaged...

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The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...

NEWHAVEN. — The Life-boat Michael Henry was launched at 2.20 P.M. on the 23rd March, a ship having been reported ashore and proceeded to Crowlink where the s.s. Saturnus, of Amsterdam, homeward bound with a general cargo, was found stranded....

PATIENT TRANSFERRED Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 9.10 a.m.

on 14th October, 1964, the Irish Lights Office requested the use of the life-boat to transfer a sick man from the Barrels lightvessel. The sea was smooth and it was two...

Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.

She had...