LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sand-Sucker Agivey
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 4.45 A.M.
on the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel about a mile N.E. of the Brake Light-vessel was burning flares. A S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The reserve...
Tusker Rock Joint Rescue
FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...
Category: Services
Bronze Medal for Weymouth
AT the beginning of June the twin-screw motor yacht Mite (a converted naval motor launch 110 feet long) was coming up Channel on her way from Malta to London. On the 6th of June, when she was fifteen miles west of Portland Bill, both her...
Category: Services
Libertas,of Genoa
The same life-boat also went off on Sunday, the 31st of January, to the assist- ance of the barque Liebertas, of Genoa, which was bringing up in the roadstead during very heavy squalls from the S.W., when her cables parted, and she went on...
The Song of the Life-Boat's Crew
WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...
Category: Articles
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...
Fit and Strong
One need only look at the cork-clad oarsmen of over 100 years ago or the 'lady launchers'of the 1950s to see just how much has changed over the decades in saving lives at sea. Today's crews and lifeguards have previously undreamt...
Category: Articles
Harbours of Refuge
WE have on several occasions called attention, in the columns of the Life-Soot Journal, to the great necessity that existed for additional harbours of refuge being constructed on some points of the coasts.
Many of our...
Category: Articles
Depositor
PIEL, LANCASHIRE.—The ship Depositor, of Halifax, N.S., in ballast, was seen in a dangerous position on the foul ground 2J miles S. of Walney lighthouse, on the morning of Sunday, the 26th October.
She had been in tow of a...
ROPE TRICKS
With a yacht pinned to rocks in 60mph winds and driving rain, Tobermory lifeboat crew would need to quickly overcome some hurdles to save the four people onboard
The 2018 summer heatwave took a dramatic turn at the end of...
Category: Articles