LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

1 November 2011: A fouled net is quite a common problem for fishermen around our coasts, but the crew of the trawler Sally-Jane were shocked to find that their nets had snagged on a wrecked yacht. Fearing for the...

Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....

THE following narrative of the wreck of H.M.S. Anson will, we doubt not, be read with interest. Certainly, it is not a recent occurrence; but there are incidents in it, as in many others of a similar character, which are deserving of being...

" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...

The Wreck Of The Royal Charter.

A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...

THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...

1 - No. 1100 R.A.F. Marine Craft Unit.

2 - R.N. Whirlwinds from station flight available for S.A.R. duty from 08.00 hours to sunset.

3 - Coastal Command Shackletons available for long range S.A.R.