LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE following account of a disastrous shipwreck which recently occurred near Dundalk, on the east coast of Ireland, cannot fail to be interesting to all who peruse it. We think it deserving of record on three accounts —1st. As an instance of...

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A To be introduced in N.W.Europe & many other waters by stages starting in April 1977 (For explanation see page 200) LATERAL MARKS PORT HAND or or Top mark (if...

As the Lifeboat went to print, RNLI rescue data for 2008 were announced.

Every one of the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units routinely reports its operational activities to Headquarters, where the Service...

TEIGNMOUTH.—At about 2 P.M. on the 14th April a vessel was seen running for the harbour whilst a strong E.S.B. wind was blowing and a heavy sea breaking on the bar. In trying to cross the bar she stranded in a dangerous position in the...

MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.

At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...

On the 13th December, the sloop Sybil, of Goole, got ashore on Thorpeness, when the life-boat was launched to her aid, and landed her crew of 3 men in safety: 1 man was washed out of the life-boat by a heavy surf.

On the evening of the 2nd March it was learned that the local motor fishing boat Tony had not come back from sea with the rest of the boats. Her owner was the life- boat coxswain, and he and two other men were on board. The coastguard...

OFF the Kentish coast there lie, Sands of treacherous make, Which swallow many a ship, Who luckless get in their wake.

They say that Earl Godwin made, A terrible curse upon Any ship that passed that way, Would come to grief...