LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Margate, Kent.—At 9.45 in the morn- ing of the 27th of February, 1949, the coastguard reported that a yacht, three miles to the north-eastwards, was drifting rapidly towards the shore. A strong west-north-west wind was blow- ing and the sea...

SHORELINE IS GOING THROUGH One Of the most exciting periods of its life. At the end of August the new Shoreline 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat will be setting out on her delivery trip to Blyth and I am hoping to join her at Spurn Point for the...

The Life-boat Barbara Fleming was launched at 10 A.M. on the 18th March during a whole northerly gale and very rough sea, in answer to distress signals in Porthdinllaen Bay. The vessel was the ketch James, of Carnarvon, bound from Abersoch...

Kirkcudbright.—At 6.40 on the morn- ing of the 20th of April, 1956, the Portpatrick coastguard rang up to say that the fishing vessel Zyava, of Fleet- wood, had fouled her screw and required help between Heston Island and Abbey Head. The...

During a heavy N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea, on the 29th October, the schooner Volant, of Kilkeel, which was sheltering in Moelfre Bay, began to drag her anchors towards the shore. She was bound from IQJkeel to Liverpool with a' cargo...

Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...

How many " monster wrecks" has it been our painful duty to chronicle during the past few years! How sad is the reflection that their number appears rather to be on the increase than on the decline! During the present year alone...

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Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...