LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

J ULY 1 0 T H. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. During the morning news was received from the intelligence officer, Cork, that a ship’s life-boat wasdrifting helplessly about thirteen miles south of Galley Head Lighthouse. A moderate...

JANUARY 4TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.

At 9.15 in the morning the port war signal station telephoned that a steamer was ashore on the North Gare Breakwater.

A strong and increasing north-north-east wind...

JANUARY 5TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.

At 12.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel apparently in distress. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a choppy sea and showers of sleet. The motor life-boat...

7,000-TON CARGO SHIP ON GOODWIN SANDS Walmer, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of Tuesday the 10th of September, 1963, Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that an unidentified cargo vessel was aground on the Goodwin Sands mid-way...

APRIL 5TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.

At nine at night a message was received from the St. Abbs Head signal station that a vessel appeared to have struck a mine. There was a light north-west wind and the sea was calm. At 9.8...

Skegness, Lincolnshire. On 28th December, 1965, the life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem.

A full account of this service appears on page 63..

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 7.18 on the night of the 1st of March, 1951, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board tele- phoned that the S.S. British Dragoon, of London, a tanker of 9,909 tons, was ashore on Taylors Spit in the Queens Channel. At...

JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.

The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.

the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...