LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Life-boat 70.001 at The Mumbles - At 2.5 a.m. on i6th September, 1966, the coastguard informed Staff Coxswain J. M.

Hunter that the coastal tanker Westerndale H., of Hull, was aground on the Wash Sands. The 70-feet...

Lady Baring.

ALL associated with the Institution will join in sympathy with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the committee of management, in his sorrow at the death of Lady Baring, on 9th June, after a long illness....

UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...

10th April.

A barge grounded, but did not need help, as later she became high and dry.—Rewards, £7 14s..

FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...

Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...

Workington, Cumberland. — On the 18th of August, 1954, the weather was too bad for the S.S. Baron Yarborough, of Ardrossan, which was at anchor off the harbour, to enter, and she wire- lessed for provisions. As no other boat was...

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