LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...
A Dinghy (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...
The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands
by Erskine Childers
Review by Sarah Bass
As Summer draws to a close, Carruthers is stuck in London at his Home Office job while his friends socialise outside of the city....
Category: Articles
The Worst Floods In Living Memory
ON the night of the 31st January- 1st February the sea invaded large areas of land in many parts of the east coast, when exceptionally high tides were driven higher by violent northerly winds often reaching gale force. The floods which...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services During the Storms of December 1874
DURING the month of December last, the most successful and continuous services to the shipwrecked that had ever been recorded in the course of one month were performed by the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT...
Category: Articles
Cergio
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
The Isabel, of Liverpool
On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as quickly as...
The S.S. Pass of Glenogle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 28th of October, 1954, the coxswain overheard a message from the Humber radio station to the port doctor stating that the S.S. Pass of Glenogle, of London, needed a doctor to attend her captain....
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of December, 1955, the skipper of a fishing boat told the second coxswain that the weather had made conditions on the outer harbour bar verv dangerous and that the local fishing boat...
Gien Mie
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1957, a local resident heard on his radio that the fishing vessel Gien Mie, of Fleet- wood, needed help. He told the honorary secretary, and at 1.40 the life-boat Ann...