LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

West Division Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at...

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of April.

1953, the Valentia radio station re- ported that the trawler Ros Ruadh, of Dublin, had broken down four miles north-west of Bray Head, and at...

1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.

It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.

on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....

MARCH APRIL AND MAY 1993 Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: March 14 D class: May 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 13,14 (twice), 15,28, May 24 and 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: April 15 and May 30 Aldeburgh, Suffolk D class...

THE services rendered in connexion with the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla have added another splendid page to the annals of heroism and humanity which make up the story of the Life-boat during the ninety years since the foundation of...

THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.

By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...

On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..