LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Drifter
JUNE 27TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A drifter, which was helping in the salvage of a motor vessel, had gone ashore herself, but she got off without help. Partly paid permanent crew. - Rewards, £6 9s..
A Catamaran
Moelfre, Anglesey. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a sailing boat was drifting towards Dulas west of Moelfre.
A watch was kept on the sailing...
A Wreck
I saw a wreck upon the ocean flood.
How sad and desolate ! No man was there; No living thing was on it. There it stood.
Its sails all gone; its masts were standing bare ; Tossed in the wide, the...
Category: Poetry
A Boat
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 5.15 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, it was reported that a small boat with an outboard motor had not returned from a fishing trip. Later it was confirmed that the boat was overdue. It had last been seen three miles...
A Steamer
FEBRUARY 6TH. - PORT ASKAIG , HEBRIDES. A steamer had been reported in distress fifteen miles west of Rhinns Point, Islay, but by the time the life-boat reached her she had made repairs and was going on her way. - Rewards, £18...
A Helicopter
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
A Steamer
10th Sep- tember. A steamer stranded, but her crew got ashore in the ship's boat.— Eewards, £3 2s. &d..
A Boat
14th October. A boat was in distress off Westcliff Beach, but the crew got ashore.-—Rewards, £17 17s..
A Yacht
Walmer, Kent - At 3.15 a.m. on 3Oth July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht dragging her anchor about half a mile offshore was bearing down on another yacht. She was drifting northwards towards Brake Sands. The life-boat Charles Dibden (Civil...
A Catamaran
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 7.56 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran was in difficulties half a mile south-east of Crab Island, Rotherslade, and that her crew of two had...