LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...

K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.

He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...

Weymouth, Dorset.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 19th of October, 1955, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the submarine Tijger- haai, of the Royal Netherlands Navy, had grounded in Weymouth Bay.

Half an...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At two o'clock on the morning of the 30th of June, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a trawler was ashore five miles north of Portpatrick.

The life-boat Jeanie Speirs...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has 138 active lifeboat stations in Britain. There are 67 Fordpowered lifeboats and Ford engines are being used exclusively in the re-engining programme. The basic unit in the new glass-reinforced...

Antiques Aid R.N.L.I.

Young supporters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution staged their first antique auction at Caxton Hall on 10th July, 1972, and raised about £730. So encouraged were the Central London...

Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...

JANUARY 15T H . - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 10.5 P.M. the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station reported a vessel sounding S.O.S. to the N.W. of the Gate Ship.

A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. It was...