LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mortar for Maroons
MORTAR for MAROONS.
This Signal Maroon has been adopted by the Institution in place of the Rocket Distress Signal because:
1. As there is no metal in its construction the danger of an accident through...
Category: Drawings
Amice
MOTOR CRUISER ON THE GOODWINS Ramsgate, Kent.—At 5.48 in the morn- ing of the 29th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported a small vessel aground on the Goodwin Sands about three miles west by north of the East Goodwin Light-vessel and the...
A Small Solent Seagull Class Sailing Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At eight o'clock in the evening of the 7th of June, 1952, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a small Solent Seagull Class sailing dinghy had capsized one mile off Milford Beach. At 8.20 he telephoned again...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...
Maggie Ross
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — The steam trawler Maggie Ross stranded on the rocks at Boulby in hazy weather about 4 A.M. on the 27th March, while bound from Aberdeen to Hull with a cargo of fish. About 7 A.M. three of the crew of the vessel arrived...
The S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - WALMER, KENT.
At 5.59 in the evening the Deal coastguard reported that the S.S. Fort Vermillion, of London, of over 7,000 tons, bound to Middlesbrough from Tangiers, was aground on the Goodwin Sands south...
The S.S. Dromara
FEBRUARY 14TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At l.6 P.M. the coastguard reported the S.S. Dromara, of Belfast, in difficulties off Wick Bay, and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 1.30 P.M., taking a pilot with...
Book Corner
more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Sheldon
MARCH 7TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At 4.45 A.M.. the coastguard reported signals from a vessel to the N.E. by E., and the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched at 6.30 A.M.
A light southerly wind was blowing...
Ex-Coxswain Sydney J. Harris, of Gorleston
Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...
Category: Obituaries