LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Lifeboat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of the...

ON the 12th of January, 1950, H.M.

submarine Truculent, with about seventy-nine men on board, and the Swedish motor tanker, Divina, collided in the Thames Estuary; the submarine sank at once.

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BAD times, bad trade and, last not least, bad weather, have all militated against a full measure of success to the efforts and labours of the Life-boat Saturday workers during the past year, but notwithstanding difficulties, often of no...

Workington, Cumberland.—At 6.35 on the morning of the 5th of July, 1956, the Walney Island coastguard reported that a vessel was aground in the harbour entrance. The life-boat Edward Z. Dresden, on temporary duty at the station, put out at...

Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....

PLEASURE BOAT RUNS AGROUND Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The life-boat coxswain was fishing in his motor boat Star of the Sea a quarter of a mile southwest of Ballycotton lighthouse on the morning of Thursday the 8th of August, 1963, when he saw...