LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A. severe gale from the S. with, a very heavy sea was experienced on the 13th October. At about 7 P.M. signals of distress were observed in the direction of the Scroby Sand. No steam-tug was available, and, in the opinion of many of those...

Boulmer, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 12th February, 1938, a vessel, which had been under observation, brought up in Alnmouth Bay. A northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The vessel was the auxiliary motor schooner...

(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.

With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...

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It looks like baby spew...', explained instructor Dave Eccles.

He was of course talking about the fluid which can occur in the lungs of a casualty when a lot of sea water is ingested. I was soon learn that this...

SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.

DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing,...

JANUARY 22ND. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. a message was received at Ramsgate from the coastguard that H.M. Destroyer Brilliant had reported that the S.S. Rynana, of Limerick, was aground a mile west of the East Goodwins Light...

EVER since the first pioneers settled in Canterbury, and sailing ships carried their cargo up the Heathcote River to Ferrymead, the ever-changing Sumner Bar has been notorious for its vicious moods and the number of lives and ships it has...