LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...

IRVINE.—On the 6th October the schooner Lady Mary, of Irvine, went ashore near the entrance of that harbour, in a strong south-westerly gale, and hoisting signals of distress, the Life-boat, the Isabella Frew, proceeded to her through aheavy...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21 was launched on May 16 to bring back a diver with a badly cut head who had been injured while working on the wrecked oil tanker Eleni V. While Helmsman Michael Mitchell set course for the ILB station,... - View image in PDF

The motor Life-boat, James Stevens No. 14, was launched at 2.18 P.M. on the 6th Decem- ber to the assistance of a ketch which was reported in distress off Walton-on- the-Naze. When she arrived alongside she found the vessel was the Dutch...

While making a few observations on this important subject, we seize the opportunity of republishing recent re- marks of Mr. Scott, the able and scientific chief of the London Weather Office.

He says:—" The system of...

At 10 A.M. on the 9th March, the sloop Osprey, of Shields, whilst on a voyage from Shields to Dunbar, encountered a strong northerly gale, and, when off Berwick, sprang a leak. Finding himself in a sinking state, the master of the sloop bore...

"Oh, many a bark, to that breast grappled fast, Has gone down to the fearful and fathomless grave; Again, crash'd together the keel and the mast, To je seen tost aloft in the glee of the wave1." SCHILLER L 2.

THE hurricane-force winds which caused so much damage in the south of England last October resulted in a dozen launches by lifeboats in the area affected by the storm, with three of the services leading to medal awards.

The...