LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 6 a.m.

on 20th November, 1965, a request was received from the Danish vessel Zita for a tow as her engines had broken down. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 6.45 in a gentle...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a Sea Cadet whaler, with three men on board, was on the rocks near Seaforth radio station. At six o'clock the life-boat...

Some years ago a Miss Maud Smith left a sum of money to the Institution so that a gift of £5, to be known as the 'Miss Maud Smith award for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke', might be made each year to the...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 8.15 on the night of the 1st of April, 1949, the Civic Guard reported a message from the Coast Life-saving Service that the s.s. Donaghadee, of Belfast, was aground at Castlerock, Dundalk Bay, with a broken rudder...

Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 6th of February, 1961, the mechanic told the honorary secre- tary that a seventeen-feet open fishing boat was drifting out to sea. There was a westerly wind of gale force when the...

PALLING.—On the 6th April, at about 7 A.M., the s. s. Spartan, of Botterdam, bound from Hamburg to London, with a cargo of sugar, grounded on the Hasborough Sands during a dense fog. On the following morning, the fog having cleared, the...

BURNHAM.—On the 28th November, the daiidy Henry, of Bridgwater, was seen at anchor off the Gore Sands, with a flag of distress flying. The Burnham Life-boat was launched, and on reaching her, it was found that her sails had been blown away,...

Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.

At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...