LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

INTERNATIONAL MARITIME MAGAZINE Every Month Seascape brings to its readers a bright, well illustrated review of maritime matters designed to inform, educate and to enjoy. It is international in its approach and written to stimulate an...

AT 5.30 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1953, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Thurso life- boat station that the steam trawler Sunlight was reported ashore on Holborn Head and in need of immed- iate...

Rhyl, Flintshire. At 6.37 on the evening of the 22nd of June, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report from the Rhyl police that a child was adrift on a rubber raft, which was floating out to sea off the Golden Sands...

— At 8.35 A.M. on the 12th March a telegram was received from Milford - on - Sea, stating that a small vessel was labour- ing heavily in a dismasted condition, and displaying signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat Robert Fleming were...

FOUND EMPTY CANOE At 2.4 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a i y-year-old boy was missing in the Firth of Forth, and that he was last seen in his canoe the previous morning.

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Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...

THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...

GRIMSBY-.—On the 6th March, at 2.30 P.M., the schooner Mary Coad, of Port Isaac, Cornwall, bound from Antwerp to Middlesbrough, was observed flying a signal of distress in the main rigging. She was riding in the Humber about half-amile N.N.W...