LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marie Louise
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 6.30 on the morning of the 5th of June, 1957, a report was received that a motor vessel was aground on the Salisbury bank in the River Dee. She was not in any danger and watch was kept on her.
At 4.20...
Patricia Joan
Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...
Irene
On the evening of 9th January, 1924, the fishing smack Irene, of Lowestoft, ran ashore near the South Pier in a rough sea when homeward bound from the fishing-grounds with a load of fish. The Motor Life-boat went out and, with some...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Woolwich Infant
At 9.30 A.M. on the 4th April, during a moderate E.N.E. gale and rough sea, the ketch Woolwich Infant, of Falmouth, parted her cable and drifted rapidly towards the Cowloe Rocks. A signal of distress was hoisted, and in response the...
Obituary
WE regret to report two serious losses which the Committee of Management have suffered by the death, on the llth September, of Admiral of the Fleet the MARQUESS or MILFORD HAVEN, and, on the 14th August, of Sir EDWARD FEETHAM COAXES, BT.<...
Category: Obituaries
Oft-Spoken Stories
CALM is the ocean ; fair is the sky; Vessels are passing silently by; Sunbeams are gilding the waves with their glory; Peaceful the scene! 'Tis an oft-spoken story.
Foaming and breaking close to our feet, On the dark...
Category: Poetry
Elizabeth Drew
At 10.30 P.M. on the 8th December a telephone message was received from the Civic Guard at Kinsale that a vessel was in distress off Garrettstown Strand.
The Motor Life-boat Sarah Ward and David William Crostxeller was...
Formica
NORTH SUNDEBRLAND. — The Longstone Lighthouse signalled early on the morning of the 14th June that a vessel was in distress. At 1.35 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and found the barque Formica of Arendal, laden with battens, had...
Hummona
Margate, Kent-At 2.21 a.m. on 7th June, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted in the Edinburgh Channel six to seven miles off Foreness point. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...