LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.

Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th...

HOLIDAYMAKERS may come and holidaymakers may go, and at Skegness they do that by their thousands, but the town and its people have all the contentment and assurance of deep roots and long friendships. There is above all a sense of continuity...

In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...

The ketch Sdbine, of Treguier, when bound from Colchester to London on the 7th April, stranded on the Buxey Sand. The northerly wind was moderate and the sea smooth, but as she was on a lee shore with the tide falling it was con- sidered...

Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 1.8 early on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1954, the coastguard tele- phoned that the trawler Dorothy Lambert, of Fleetwood, had wirelessed that she had gone aground three miles north-west-by-west of...

AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT At 5.50 P.M. during an air-raid the police telephoned the life-boat coxswain that a man had come down in the sea by parachute two miles off Epple Bay. A S.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor...

On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...

Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...