LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 2.1 p.m. on i3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht in the Needles channel. At 2.10 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe was launched. The tide was flooding....

Shortly be- fore 10 A.M. on 9th January information was received through the Coastguard that a steamer was ashore on Sizewell Bank, about half a mile N.W. of the Sizewell Bank Buoy. She was found later to be the s.s. Polaris, of Stockholm,...

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Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...

Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...

Chris Davies Cardigan crew member, aged just 20, from a tragic road accident on 18 November.

GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...

Stromness, Orkneys; Wick, Caithness-shire.

ON the night of June 13th the Motor | Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to...