LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEVENTEEN BOATS ESCORTED OVER BAR Arbroath, Angus. During the morning of the 1st November, 1962, a southerly gale sprang up, causing very rough seas at the harbour bar. The Arbroath fishing fleet was at sea, and as the weather was...

Humber, Yorkshire.—During a fog on the morning of the 3rd October the Spurn Point Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported an unknown vessel ashore near Kilnsea beacon. She was the Greek steamer Ais Giorgis, of Piraeus, bound with a cargo...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 5.57 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht had run ashore with the ebb tide on the Dike shoal off Ramsgate. At 6.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis...

LAST Christmas a number of life-boats again took out Christmas parcels from their towns to men on neighbouring lightships. The Weymouth life-boat took them to the Shambles, Selsey to the Owers, Barry Dock to the Breaksea, Margate to the...

WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...

At about 4.20 P.M. on the 2nd September a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was ashore on the Gorton sands.

The steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 proceeded with all despatch to the sands, and found the...

Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 9.2 on the evening of the 6th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men were marooned on Black Rock and were in danger of being carried out to sea. At 9.16 the life-boat Lady Scott...

At about 1 A.M. on the 1st February, the Coast- guard called the Coxswain of the Life- boat Co-operator No. 2 and reported that a vessel was making signals of distress near the Bull Point. The Life-boat was at once launched, and proceeded...