LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AITH'S 26 HOURS' SEARCH.

Aith, Shetlands. — 9th October, 1939. Information was received through the coastguard at 1.45 P.M.

that the s.s. Vistula, of Gothenburg, Sweden, had been...

At about noon on the 3rd April the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a steamer appeared to be unmanageable.

Later she stranded on Spurn Point.

She was the s.s. Lancashire, of Sunder- land,...

At 6.20 A.M.

on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.

She had...

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HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...