LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.

At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...

— The s.s. Grosvenor, of Newcastle, bound light from Port Knockie to Sunderland, struck the rocks at Emmanuel Head early on the morning of the 20th Decem- ber. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The night was very dark,...

NEWHAVEN.—The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Michael Henry was informed on the morning of the 12th January that a large ship was ashore at Portobello. He atonce summoned the crew, and at 8.45 the Life-boat was launched. On reaching the vessel she...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 26th of May, 1957, the Needles coastguard telephoned that the yacht Overlord, of Southampton, was in difficulties eight and a half miles south-west of...

MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE. — At 8 P.M. on the 15th February, while a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.S.E., the Life-boat Heywood was launched, it having been reported that a ship was stranded. On reaching the vessel, which had stranded...

BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...

Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...

YOUGHAL, co. CORK.—On the morning of the 16th July, the barque Pax, of Liverpool, outward bound with a general cargo, stranded about half a mile north of Knockadoon Head, having lost some of her sails, while a moderate gale was blowing from...