LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Life-boat was called out by distress signals at about 10 P.M. on the 25th April, a vessel being in distress in Swanage Bay. The crew were promptly assembled and the boat launched. The vessel proved to be the barge Maggie, of London,...

St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At about 6.15 P.M. on the 12th October, 1938, a doctor, a member of the local life-boat committee, asked for the life-boat to be launched to take to Penzance a young man who was suffering from acute...

At 6.45 p.m. on i8th June, 1966, it was reported that a man had come ashore from a cabin cruiser which had run out of fuel off Camber. The casualty was anchored offshore. At 6.53 the Rye police indicated that there were four women and two...

USED PARACHUTE FLARE Plymouth, Devon. At 11.20 p.m. on 3ist July, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man in a cabin cruiser off Renney rocks was flashing a light and calling for help. It was half an hour after flood...

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When round our cliffs and our headlands hoar our winter seas are vext, When the waves are lashed by the wind- flouts wild that come with the condor...

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1958, a man who had been watching a cabin cruiser rolling appar- ently out of control one mile south-west of Birnbeck Island told the police that red...

DECEMBER 25TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. At 6.50 P.M. on Christmas Day information was received, through the coastguard, that distress signals had been seen, and the life-boat crew were assembled. At 7.35 P.M. the naval authorities reported that...

EAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 9 A.M. on the 27th September a mounted messenger brought information that a dismasted vessel was showing signals of distress about a mile from the shore. The Lifeboat Two Sisters was promptly launched and proceeded to...