LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — About 11.25 on the night of the 10th of March, 1952, a life-boatman reported that he had heard a wireless message from the motor vessel Saint Kentigern, of Glasgow, laden with coal with a crew of eight. She had...

MARCH 2 6TH. - TOBERMORY, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.30 in the morning the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a ship was in difficulties and making water six miles south-south-east of Ardnamurchan Light. The Tobermory motor life-boat Sir...

Where river meets sea, standing waves are an ominous threat to anyone in a small boat. With a 2m swell and spring
tide, conditions on 21 August at the mouth of the country’s second-fastest river overwhelmed an underpowered and...

The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.

Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...

Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...

some recent publications reviewed EDWARDIAN WORTHING Eventful Era in a Lifeboat Town written and published by Rob Blann at £12.95 ISBN 09516277 1 6 Foreword by RaymondBaxter, RNLl vice president and member of the committee of management...

Drogheda, Ireland.—A life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S design, has been recently placed at Drogheda by this Institution, aided by liberal contributions in that place, and the surrounding neighbourhood. This boat is 30 feet long by 7i feet wide,...

Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...