LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain O. M. Watts Ltd
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT We hold stocks of all the flares and signals now compulsory for yachts over IS tons.
Also lifebuoys, safety belts, kapok cushions, bells, horns, whistles, fire-extinguishers, first-aid cases and a...
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Heroines
Recently, people of all ages remembered the bravery of a lifesaver who battled fierce seas in a little rowing boat to carry out a rescue 175 years ago. This was no archetypal Victorian coxswain, but a lighthousekeeper’s...
Category: Articles
A Canvas Canoe
JULY 17TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. Three young men had put to sea in a canvas canoe, but lost their lives before the life-boat could reach them. - Rewards, £10 12s. 6d..
Erna
The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel became a total wreck,...
Four New Scottish Life-Boats Named
DURING the month of August, 1961, no fewer than four new life-boats were named in Scotland. The ceremonies took place at Aith on the 2nd August, at Whitehills on the 12th August, at Port- patrick on the 16th August, and at Buckie on the 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
The Southern Railway Pleasure Steamer Southsea
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—On the 26th August, while the Southern Railway pleasure steamer Southsea was on a trip round the Isle of Wight, her engine broke down and she came to anchor off Bembridge Ledge. A strong S.E. breeze was blowing,...
Reclaim
Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.9 p.m. on loth November, 1965, the coastguard at Deal informed the honorary secretary that the Margate coastguard had observed a vessel burning flares two miles north-east of Foreness Point. The lifeboat Michael and Lily...
A Steamer (8)
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Don- aghadee, Co. Down.—25th February.
A steamer stranded, but of the people on board some were taken off by another vessel and others reached the shore over the rocks.—Rewards, Port- patrick,...
A Fishing Boat (3)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—10th September.
A fishing boat was expected to make for the harbour, and the life-boat put out to escort her in, but she ran for Scarborough instead. — Rewards, £5 12s. Qd..
None (4)
JANUARY 11TH. - PEEL, AND PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. Amber-coloured rockets had been seen and the Peel life-boat went out. Later a red flare was seen in the direction of the life-boat and the Port Erin life-boat put out, but nothing was found.-...