LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Freighter sinks CROSSMA, the French Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Joburg, informed St Peter Port Radio, Guernsey, at 0104 on Tuesday January 24, 1984, that the Liberian freighter Radiant Med had developed a serious list 13 miles north west...

HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, president of the Institution, visited Shetland for the first time on Tuesday September 12, 1978, when he named Lerwick's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian. A guard was provided by A (Lovat Scouts) Company 2/51...

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...

THE Institution is again issuing in the autumn a life-boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.

The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...

All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.

(Tel.: 0722-6966).FAIR...

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NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...

ST. DAVID'S.—On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position...