LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emma Louise
At 2 P.M.
on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive...
Lines on a Gallant Rescue By a Shore-Boat
HALF a league, half a league, Half a league seaward, In a wild storm of death Sail'd the five heroes.
Onward, the Quay Brigade! Straight for the wreck they made: In a wild storm of Death Sail'd the five...
Category: Poetry
Saga Surf
Penlee, Cornwall - At n p.m. on 25th December, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed to meet the tanker Saga Surf which had a very sick man on board. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched...
A Canoe
Eastbourne, Sussex.—About 11.20 in the morning of the llth of September, '1949, the police reported that a canoe had capsized oil Falling Sands. The occupants, a man and his two small children, had been trying to round Beachy Head. Ten...
Crescence
LINE FIRED TO MOTOR VESSEL AGROUND Caister, Norfolk. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore at Winterton but did not require any...
Veluna, of Liverpool
On the 19th October, the^same life-boat put off', during stormy. weather, to the rescue of the crew of a vessel which was observed to be stranded on the Long Bank.
On arriving alongside, they found that the only...
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C classjj-Iu_cksjthreejto safety from cliff base The rescue of three people from cliffs on the Cardigan coast has earned two C class crew members the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, with a third going to an off-duty lifeguard...
Advance
The schooner Advance, of Plymouth, when bound from Hull to Teignmouth with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the Scroby Sands on the 23rd February. Immediately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent...
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Fishermen saved by inshore lifeboatWhen four anglers slipped into a rough sea near Newcastle Co Down it took the combined efforts of the station's D class inshore lifeboat and its Mersey class all-weather boat to snatch them to...
Snow Wych
Yacht on bar THE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD On Watch at Penrhyn on Tuesday April 17 saw, at 1155, a small yacht under outboard engine with her mainsail up making for the River Teifi. It was a fine day with a clear sky and the sea in the bay was...