LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wood for the Trees
The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....
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Bisco 9
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 1.10 in the morning on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported a radio message from the tug Turmoil that the steamer Bisco 9, which she was tow- ing, had parted her tow and was drift- ing....
Koo-She
Casualty taken in tow half-a-mile from rocks in on-shore galeThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to the secretary of the Sennen Cove lifeboat station commending the coxswain and crew for their actions during a service to a...
The American Steamers Am-Mer-Mar and The Luray Victory, of Los Angeles
JANUARY 30TH - 31ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.20 at night, just after the lifeboat had returned from the American steamer Am-Mer-Mar, which had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands, but had got off without help, the Deal coastguard reported another...
The Soviet Trawler Topaz and French Yacht Campscharles
Three nations THE SOVIET TRAWLER Topaz making for a position off Bournemouth with a French yacht, Campscharles, in tow was reported to HM Coastguard Solent RHQ by Lands End RHQ at 0910 on Thursday,October 14,1976. Two survivors aboard the...
Paramount
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
Charm
MONTROSE, N.B..—On the llth April, at 2 P.M., when blowing hard from the N.E., the schooner Charm, of Montrose, bound from that port to Hartlepool, got ashore at the entrance of the river, and subsequently became a total wreck. The Lifeboat...
Enigma
On the afternoon of the 6th March, at about 5 o'clock, a schooner was observed coming from the W. and making for Serabster Boads. As the sea was very heavy, and the wind was blowing strongly from the N., fears were entertained that she...
Tagus
SUNDEBLAND.—Flares were seen in the direction of Hendon Beach at 5.30 P.M. on the 12th November. The John Fouhton Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the spot, and found that the brig Tagus, of Aberdeen, bound from that port to Sunderland...
Lizzie and Annie
The fishing yawl Lizzie and Annie, oi Arbroath, was returning to port from the fishing grounds about midday on the 7th October, when owing to the strong S.E. wind and heavy sea it was realized that both the boat and her crew would be in...