LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

OCTOBER 26TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.

At 2.50 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported a message, from the Morecambe Bay Light-vessel, that a vessel two miles north of the light-vessel was making distress signals. A...

Totton and District branch is organising no less than 12 fund-raising events in 1980, and has distributed its programme to 8,000 homes in its area. The first event, a jumble sale in February, realised £313. The branch received donations...

During the RNLI's anniversary year, branches, guilds and supporters from all over the UK and Republic of Ireland celebrated in a number of novel and interesting ways - with many of the green fingered amongst them saying it with flowers.....

RAMSGATE.—On the 26th January, at 7.45 A.M., during a moderate wind from the N., a barque was observed ashore on the North Sand Head, Goodwin Sands.

The harbour steam-tug Vulcan and Lifeboat Bradford were immediately...

Sheringham, Norfolk. — 7th April, 1938. A steamer had reported by wireless, through Humber Radio Station, that she had seen an aeroplane fall into the sea in flames near the Dudgeon Light-vessel, but a long search revealed no trace of the...

SUNDERLAND, SOUTH OUTLET. While a whole gale was blowing from E.N.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow and hail, on the 26th March, the threemasted schooner Arion, of Bremerhaven, laden with coal, stranded on Hendon Beach and became a...

Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 10th February the Civic Guard reported that a local salmon fishing boat, with four men on board, was in difficulties. A whole E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather was very...

Port Askaig, Islay.—On the afternoon of the 31st December the Oban coastguard telegraphed that an aircraft had reported a ship drifting eastward through the Gulf of Corrievreckan, which is north of Jura Island. A strong S.W. breeze was...