LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MARCH 15TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.

At 3.50 P.M. the coastguard telephoned to Girvan that a ship was ashore on Ailsa Craig A moderate southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The life-boat...

PENMON.—On the 25th January, during a strong gale from the N., while the disabled steamer Pioneer, of Dublin, was being towed into the Menai Straits, the hawsers of the tugs broke, and the vessel drove on Puffin Island. The Penmon Life-boat...

SEPTEMBER 3RD. - SWANAGE, DORSET.

At 7.30 P.M. it was learned from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore under St. Albans Head. The sea was calm, but there was a very thick fog. The motor lifeboat Thomas Markby was...

EARLY on the evening of the 28th of August, 1957, a schoolmaster went to the harbour at Staithes in Yorkshire with a number of his pupils to bathe.

There was a light north-westerly wind blowing, and outside the harbour the...

TORBAY, SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON.-—At 11.25 A.M., on the 6th January, the Motor Life-boat George Shee left Brixham in a whole S.S.W.

gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, as the s.s. Ingola, of Glasgow, had sent out an...

Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...

• A new volume in the Wreck and Rescue Series is always welcome and in The Life-boats of Cardigan Bay and Anglesey (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 32s.) Mr. Henry Parry has maintained the traditions of accuracy and thorough- ness of the...

from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...