LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SHIPS IN COLLISION Eastbourne, Sussex. At 1.5 a.m. on 15th July, 1965, a collision was reported to have occurred ten miles south-by-east of Beachy Head. One of the vessels was sinking. At 1.20 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched in a...

Selflessness

We sometimes hear inspiring news reports of people acting on instinct, trying to save a fellow human being with no thought for their own safety. At sea, there is a tradition...

Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...

FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...

Ballyglass fills the gap in Ireland's cover The Institution will have an entirely new lifeboat station in operation on the northwest coast of the Republic of Ireland this autumn.

The station, at Ballyglass Co. Mayo will...

BULL BAY.—Signals of distress were shown by a vessel lying between the East Mouse and Amlwch port, on the evening of the 12th January. They were repeated in quick succession, and the Lifeboat Curling was promptly launched, four minutes only...

About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...

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