LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sand Dredger Sir Cedric Making Water Fast Was Towed from Three Miles West of trevose Light Back to Harbour on October 11/1975 By padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat Ja
Sand dredger Sir Cedric, making water fast, was towed from three miles west ofTrevose Light back to harbour on October 11,1975, byPadstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane under the command of Coxswain A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Potted Drama of the Sea
FOR some time past the Morning Post has published in its " Personal" adver- tisement ' column what it calls " Peter Piper's Potted Plots," three prizes of one pound each being given, each day for the best potted...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Vulcan
At 9. A.M. on the 25th March during a strong W.
gale, with very heavy sea, a vessel was observed in difficulties about two miles from the middle Hasborough Sands, and soon after she was blown within half a mile of the sands...
New Ilfracombe Life-Boat to Be Named "Lloyd's"
A new 37-foot Oakley life-boat now under construction, which is to be stationed at Ilfracombe, North Devon, will bear the name "Lloyd's" in recognition of the financial support given every year by members of Lloyd's to the...
Category: Articles
The Launching of the Life-Boat
When wild winds howl along the deep, And bid the ocean mountains rise To thunder on White Albion's steep The vengeance of her native skies, What cheers the storm-tossed mariners, Wrecked on her rock-bound shore, And nerves their hearts...
Category: Poetry
The French Naval Vessel Victorieuse
Dungeness, Kent.—There was fog in the morning of the 2nd of March, 1948, and at 8.20 distress signals were heard. At 8.45 the motor life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a moderate north-easterly breeze, with a choppy sea, and...
A Boat (2)
JUNE 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
Seven soldiers had gone fishing in a small boat. There was a dense fog.
Nothing was found, and it was learned later that the men had been picked up by a trawler. An...
Coulin
Ballycotton, Co. Cork. At 11.30 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1960, the motor launch Coulin left Ballycotton for Dunmore East, in spite of worsen- ing weather. The coxswain gave advice on the best course to take to clear the broken...
None (5)
Appledore, Devon. An account of the service by this life-boat on ist January, 1966, will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Henri Altazin
Humber, Yorkshire - At 3.45 p.m.
on 2nd June, 1967, it was reported that there was a sick man on board the French trawler Henri Altazin. The trawler was due to arrive at the Spurn lightvessel at 2 a.m. on 3rd June. The life...