LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
Category: Articles
Emily Warbrick
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 12th February the coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress displayed by a schooner at anchor in Moelf re Roads. He mustered his crew, and without delay launched the Star...
Alnwick
PWLLHELI, CARNARVONSHIRE. — A schooner was seen to be dragging her anchors and drifting rapidly towards St.
Patrick's Causeway, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N.W., with terrific squalls and a heavy sea, on...
Chr. Christensen
Signals of distress called out the Life- boat Forster Fawsett at 4.40 A.M. on the 16th February. She found the steamer Chr. Ghristensen, of Copenhagen, ashore on the south end of the Longstone Island, where she had stranded whilst bound to...
Last word
Emailers, letter writers, Facebook users and Tweeters have all been in touch to share their support. If you'd like to do the same, write to us using the details at the front of the magazine, or get involved with our social...
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News and Views
SEA Check scheme goes coast-wide Why wait until you get into trouble before finding out how well equipped your boat is? That's the reasoning behind the RNLI's SEA Check scheme, which aims to give every boat owner the chance to have a...
Category: Articles
Tjoba
Weymouth, Dorset. At 11.39 on the morning of the 27th of January, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Tjoba of Groningen was making heavy weather two miles west of Portland Bill. When the life-boat Frank...
Antoinette (1)
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...
Gay Nixie
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that H.M.S. Urania had reported a yacht in need of help a mile and a half north- east of Weymouth harbour. The life- boat William and...
Grange
The spritsail barge Orange, of Rochester, whilst bound from London to Dover with a cargo of wheat, on the 29th September, stranded in Minnis Bay. She hoisted a signal for assistance, and the No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched. When...