LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (2)
Hartlepool, Durham. At five o'clock on the morning of the 27th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had been seen drifting about three miles east- south-east of Hartlepool. Nobody could be seen...
Mary Lloyd of Carnarvon & Brigantine Rebecca, of Carnarvon
On the morning of the 19th March the schooner Man/ Lloyd, of Carnarvon, came into Fish-guard Bay, and anchored in a very exposed part of it. In the afternoon, the wind sud- denly shifted to the N.N.E., and blew a terrific gale, the sea soon...
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
Past and Present
40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
Heaving the Lead
OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Wexfordian
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the afternoon of the 8th March it was learned that the s.s. Wexfordian, of Wexford, which had been aground on South Dogger Bank since the 29th February, was in need of help. A strong N.E. by E. breeze was...
Athenian
At 11.45 A.M.
on 12th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Kirkwall that a trawler was ashore on Skea Skerries, Westray Firth, and that the skipper was still on board. As there was...
A Fishing Boat
— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
The Last of the Life-Boat Horses
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
Category: Articles
Destruction of the Passenger Steam-Ship, "Austria," By Fire
THE steam-ship, Austria, of 2,500 tons, one of the Hamburg line of screw steam-packets, running between that place and New York, sailed from Southampton on the 4th Sept.
last for New York. Her passengers numbered 425, and...
Category: Articles