LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
All on a Winter's Night
I WAS just finishing my tea and con- gratulating myself that we had no calls for a fortnight, although it was winter and a stormy one at that, when the news came. There was a loud, sharp knock at the door. Bess (my wife) looked up from...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Skilful ILB Rescue off Southwold SHORTLY before 10 a.m. on 6th February, 1972, Mr. Patrick Pile, a member of the Southwold inshore life-boat crew, walked to the end of the harbour mouth. The wind was east south east, force 6, and gusting...
A Small Open Boat
At 3.30 P.M. on the 31st October the Coastguard received a message from Broadstairs stating that a small open boat, with one man in her, was out at sea and drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. As a strong northerly breeze was blowing...
Elizabeth, of Cardigan
On the 23rd March, during a heavy gale of wind, the smack Elizabeth, of Cardigan, got under weigh to cross the Bar, but in doing so, her jib sheet was blown away.
She then let go her two anchors; but the chains parted, and...
Toogo, of Esthonia and Corinthian, of London
North Deal.
In then* long record of service the.
men of the North Deal Life-boat have rarely been so severely tried as they were in the galea, at the beginning of last November. A whole gale from E.N.E....
Indian Chief
RAMSGATE.—Captain BRAINE, the harbour- master of Ramsgate, in reporting the noble service rendered by the Ramsgate Life-boat on the 6th January, on the occasion of the wreck of the ship Indian Chief, on the Long Sands, states that the vessel...
Rapid
A few minutes after 8 P.M. on the 8th January the Coastguard reported that distress sig- nals were being fired from the St.
Nicholas Light-vessel, and without delay the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. They found the...
Barnhill
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT EASTBOURNE MARCH 20TH. - EASTBOURNE, HASTINGS, AND NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. During the night the London steamer Barnhill, of 5,430 tons, was in the English Channel on her way from Nova Scotia to London.Two of the...
None
Quick action saves life of fellow lifeboatman lost overboard It is particularly difficult for a lifeboat crew to go to the rescue of somebody that they know. It makes it even harder when the casualty is a fellow lifeboatman. The crew of...
Fjordheim
The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey and the Insti- tution's steam-tug were called out for service at 8 P.M. on the 6th March. A telephone message stated that signals of distress had been reported N.N.E.
from Pentire, and...