LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1954, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen one mile west of Portland Bill. At 9.20 the life-boat William and Clara Ryland put out. The sea was...

Tke Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of December, 1954, the coast- guard reported that a fishing vessel appeared to be in difficulties near Rhossilly, but later stated that she was making way...

Peel, Isle of Man.—At 3.46 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Favonian, of Belfast, which had a crew of four, was burning a flare a quarter of a mile north of Peel breakwater....

Margate, Kent. — At 1.58 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel appeared to be drifting towards the Longsands about ten miles north of Margate. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...

Children from the Summerswood Junior School, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, visited the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood late last year. The following are extracts from letters received after their visit.

'The place I liked...

Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd August, 1968, it was reported that a girl had been washed off the rocks at Land's End and a man had jumped into the sea to help her.

The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched...

ROUGH PASSAGE St. Ives, Cornwall. At 2.50 p.m. on 26th November, 1963, the medical officer for the port of Penzance and Mount's Bay area informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Arthur Albright, expected in the area at 4.10,...