LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NORWEGIAN STEAMER BREAKS IN TWO Dun Laoghaire, and Howth, Co. Dublin.

—On the 4th of March, 1947, the Norwegian motor vessel, Bolivar, of Oslo, ran aground on the northern end of the Kish Bank, seven and a half miles from...

Moelfre, Anglesey - At 3.7 p.m. on i oth September, 1966, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Cordelia II was in difficulties six miles north of Puffin Island with both engines broken down. The life-boat Watkin...

The Institution has suffered a severe loss by the death on February 2oth of Mrs. Eva Leeming, organising secretary for Greater London. She was appointed assistant organising secretary in 1926. In 1935 she became joint organising secretary,...

Dover, Kent.—At 11.58 on the night of the 30th of May, 1956, the Sandgate coastguard passed on a report from the North Foreland radio station that the motor vessel Prins Bernhard, of Gro- ningen, had been in collision five miles south of...

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A Union Flag jacket was just the thing to make master of ceremonies, Steve Stanton, look the height of sartorial elegance. He wore jacket, made and donated by David and Jenny Ames of Bridlington. - View image in PDF

On the morn- ing of the llth January, the steam trawler Prosper, of Ostend, bound from Ostend to the Orkney fishing grounds, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, increasing later to a whole gale....

St Mary's Scilly Isles Some idea of the conditions during the Bronze Medal service by the Arun class Robert Edgarto the yacht Sacaro/ecan be gauged from these photographs. The pictures show the moment the 25ft Folkboat was overwhelmed...