LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.

She was then directed to a position where...

TEN MEN RESCUED Dover and Dungeness, Kent. At 4.58 a.m. on 29th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch ship, Katherina Kolkmann was in collision with the British coaster Gannet five miles south of...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 9.36 on the evening of the 28th of May, 1958, the coastguard informed the coxswain that distress signals were being shown in Yarmouth Roads. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station,...

JANUARY 26TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. The Dutch steamer Otterland, of Rotterdam, had gone aground, but she was refloated by tugs. - Rewards, £14 18s. 6d.

Power cut In winds of force 10-12, heavy squalls and seas of 8-1 Om, the Portpatrick lifeboat Mary Irene Millar launched to a fishing vessel with electrical failure. It was 12.55am on 8 January. Over two hours later, the lifeboat found the...

LAUNCH TO DINGHIES AND WOMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties near C 16 buoy in the river Mersey. The...

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