LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two French Fishing Smacks
On the 31st De- cember, two French fishing-smacks were seen driving out of Dungeness Roads down on a lee-shore, off Dymchurch. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the S.W.
The Dungeness life-boat, the Providence, was...
Maggie
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
Margaret Jane
On the 13th October, a steamer was seen dragging her anchors in a whole gale and a rough sea. She collided with the schooner Margaret Jane, of Bangor, and drove across the bows of the Trinitysteamer Stella. In response to signals of distress...
Launching and Recovery—Part III: Tractor and Carriage Launch By Edward Wake-Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
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Fishing Boats (1)
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—A strong S. gale sprung up suddenly on the morning of the 17th January, and about twelve fishing-boats, of Spittal, were obliged to leave their lines and run for shelter. As there was a strong sea on the bar with a strong...
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
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Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire. — During the morning of the 4th of February, 1952, a strong north-easterly gale was blow- ing and the sea was heavy. The Whitby fishing vessel Lead Us was at sea, and at noon she wirelessed asking if it were possible to...
None
During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...
Lizzie
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 9th February a messenger from Perran Zabuloe arrived at Newquay with intelligence that a vessel was at anchor, in a very, dangerous position, near Hoblyn's Cove, east of Perran...
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
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