LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 18TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. The Sunk Light-vessel had been attacked by enemy aircraft, but TrinityHouse steamers went to her help. - Rewards, £20 12s..

Humber, Yorkshire - At 7.53 a.m.

on 6th February, 1967, news was receivedreceived that there was a sick man on the Dowsing lightvessel who needed to be taken ashore. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 8.45...

In rock cleft WHILE ON PASSAGE from Carrick Fergus to Portpatrick on Monday August 3, 1981, the 32ft motor sailer Maureen II suffered engine failure. She continued under sail but, trying to enter harbour, she ran into difficulties and was...

WHILE the Institution was develop- ing its life-boat service in the first half of the 19th century another maritime organization was also in its infancy—a federation of port unions which was the precursor of the National Union of Seamen.<...

On the 28th September last the Norwegian Galliot Ship Provence ran on shore on the south side of Berwick-har- bour; the wind blowing strong from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea running at the time.

The Berwick life-boat,...

ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which the crew, and courageous determination on the part of them all, could have had been sheltering in Fishguard i successfully brought the Life-boat, Harbour, left for...

ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...

Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 6th of January, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the fishery protection vessel Vaila was ashore north of Craigmore, Isle of Lewis, and was making water. Shortly afterwards a message was...