LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent.—At 7.37 oil the night of the 21st of March, 1952, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two ships had been in collision in a fog four miles south-east of Dover. They were the S.S. Benwyvis, of Leith, and the...

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SEPT. 10TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

While bound for Newcastle the S.S. Magdapur, of Liverpool, a vessel of 8,640 tons, carrying a crew of eighty, was sunk by a U-boat off Aldeburgh. Information reached the lifeboat station...

Coxswain William Watts Williams, of St. David's, who died on the 7th Jan- uary, 1963, had served as coxswain of the St. David's life-boat for 19 years.

During this period the St. David's life- boat was launched...

CHANGE OF TITLE OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the "Royal...

Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge

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Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...