LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.35 A.M. on the 22nd October, 1939, the Deal coastguard reported by telephone that the Dutch steamer s.s. Alphald, of Rotterdam, was aground near the N.W.

Goodwins Buoy, close to the wrecked s.s....

RUDDER WAS BROKEN Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.15 P-m- on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired a red flare about 2^ miles west of the harbour. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a...

THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...

Stromiu;s, Orkneys.—At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 30th of April, 1051, a salvage company reported that the n.otor tanker Oljaren, of Gothenburg, which had been aground off Muckle Skerry since the 12th, had been re- floated and was...

ON the 12th April, 1901, the fishing cobles belonging to Runswick, a small village on the Yorkshire coast, were afloat when a heavy sea sprung up imperilling their safety. It became evidently a case for the Life-boat, but unfortunately the...

MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched.

A light easterly...

ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.

In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...

Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...