LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. On the evening of 16th January, 1942, the steamer R. J. Cullen, of St. John’s, Newfoundland, was blown ashore at Leanish Point, on the S.E. side of Barra, by a S.E. gale, and on the 16th January, 1942, the Barra...

IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...

BOAT OWNERS were told the truth about salvage claims by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I., Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., at the annual meeting of the Institution at Central Hall, Westminster, on 9th April, 1967. He said it...

Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.

JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.

H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....

AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.

She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...

There were no services by IRBs in December and January, which resulted in lives being saved, but in February the Whitstable,Kent, IRB went to the assistance of a speedboat.

Whitstable, Kent. At 11.30 a.m. on 2oth February,...

ON the evening of the 28th March, 1962, the motor vessel Ridunian, which was loaded with 150 tons of grit and gravel, sailed from Alderney for St. Peter Port, Guernsey. A fresh breeze was blowing from the south-south west, the weather was...

Lee shore FOLLOWING THE SIGHTING of a red flare in Dovercourt Bay by the BR sea freight liner. Thames Coastguard telephonedthe honorary secretary of Walton and Frinton lifeboat station and the deputy launching authority of Harwich lifeboat...