CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
THE following verses were written by Beryl James, of Liskeard, Cornwall, after seeing a Life-boat film. She was fifteen years old at the time, and was one of the prize-winners in the Life-boat Essay Competition last...
Category: Poetry
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
At 3.30 A.M. on the 31st October two cobles proceeded to the fishing grounds, and, while fishing, a strong gale suddenly sprang up from the N.E., bringing with it a rough and heavy sea.
At 7 A.M., when the boats attempted...
AT 8.15 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1956, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station was told that a swimmer was in difficulties on the Southport side of the River Ribble. A fresh north-westerly gale was blowing,...
Category: Services
Night escort ANGLE LIFEBOAT, THE 46ft 9in WATSON CLASS, Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds, launched on service at2148 on the evening of Saturday May 17, 1986, after a yacht had been reported to be suffering engine problems in gale...
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of December.
1954, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Inishtearaght Rock lighthouse, as the weather was too bad...
NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE.—On the morning of the 7th November, while a whole gale was blowing from the N,, the dandy Ann and Elizabeth, of Cardigan, homeward bound in ballast, was seen drifting towards the beach. Efforts were made to save the...
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 8th May the fishing coble Sarah, of this port, which had gone out at about 3 A.M., was caught in a gale from the E.S.E, which subsequently sprang up, and at about 8.30 she was seen making for the harbour. The sea had...
BROADSTAIRS. — Signals having been shown by the barque Jane Kilgour, of Dundee, during a strong gale from the N.E., snow squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 4th February, the Life-boat Christopher Waud, Sradford, was launched at 1.30 P.M.,...