LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Greenhithe
APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.
A northerly pale was blowing with a very...
Self-Devotedness of Sailors
SELF-DEVOTEDNESS OF SAILORS.
THERE is no part of the task which in con- ducting this publication we have imposed on ourselves, from which we anticipate more satisfaction than the relation of acts of self- ilevotion and...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Fund raisers on the Isle of Anglesey stepped up their efforts last year and increased their income from £ 1 1 .(XX) in 1977 to £15,(XX) in 1978. Part of this increase was made possible by the gift of two water colours painted and...
Category: Donations
Atlantic 21
Length 6.9m (22ft 9in) Beam 2._44m (8ft) Displacement Approx 2,750lb Speed 29 knots Endurance 3 hours at max. - View image in PDF
speed Crew 3 Construction GRP hull with hypalon-coated nylon tube. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kings of Wessex School Cheddar
A tug of war across the river, or for one of these gallant but presumably doomed young competitors, over the river.
This was just one of the ways that pupils from Kings of Wessex School, Cheddar, succeeded in raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Scott Cowper's Ex- Watson Class Lifeboat Mabel E. Holland Beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to Carry Out Temporary Repairs During Her Epic Cicumnavigati
David Scott Cowper's ex- Watson class lifeboat Mabel E. Ho/land beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to carry out temporary repairs during her epic cicumnavigation via the North West Passage. One of the illustrations from Northwest Passage... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
Category: Articles
After the Wreck
ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
Category: Poetry
The S.S.. Northumberland
NEWBIGGIN.—At about 5 P.M. on, the 14th October the ss. Northumberland, of Newcastle, ran into the bay for shelter during a very severe storm and very high sea. In reply to signals of distress shown by her the Life-boat William Hop- Teinson...
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (3)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...