LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Le Cateau
Lytham-St Anne's, Lancashire. At 9.55 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1958, the mechanic told the honorary secretary that the owner of the motor yacht Le Cateau of Glasson Dock had rowed ashore to report that his vessel was...
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Mark Lisa
WORKINGTON, Sunday January 6, 1985: a 33ft fishing vessel, Mark Lisa, with two men aboard, on passage between Fleetwood and Tarbert on the Clyde, suffered engine failure and drifted on to rocks at St Bees Head. She then floated off, leaking...
Rowsley
AUGUST 3RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a trawler under the cliffs at Skirza Head sounding an S.O.S. There was thick fog and a gentle S.S.W. breeze was blowing with a slight sea. The motor...
Kentish Hoy
JUNE 14TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 10.25 P . M . a message was received from the Felixstowe coastguard, through the Walton-on-Naze coastguard, that a vessel was in distress one mile east of the Cork Light-vessel. A S.W. gale was...
Maritime Buoyage System A (1)
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The Life-Boat In Verse
The Life-boat in Verse. An anthology covering a hundred years, a commentary by Sir John Gumming and Charles "' the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Hodder Selected with Vince. Published for & Stoughton. 25. 6d.MUCH verse...
Category: Poetry
The Maggie M. Birnie
PETERHEAD.—On the evening of the 28th April the wind increased to a gale, from E.S.E. and a heavy sea sprung up.
As some fishing-boats were expected to arrive from Shetland, and the approach to the harbour was dangerous, it...
The Sailing Boat Victory
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 10.32 on the night of the 31st of August, 1954. a man rang up to say that his sailing boat Victory had put out that morning with a crew of two and nine visitors, but had not returned. At 10.50 the life-boat Hearts of...
Hindlea, of Dublin
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 7th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the keepers of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse had reported a motor vessel, a mile north of the Mull, drifting east - north - eastwards...