LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
CADABRA
Motor yacht Cadabra, which tours the coasts of Great Britain on sales promotion for Sandhurst Marketing Ltd., a firm of stationers, has completed her fourth round-Britain trip, and Brian Hulme, Chairman of the company, has presented a cheque...
Category: Donations
Hydrovane
Six taken off ON A NIGHT of worsening weather, Clyde Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Islay lifeboat station at 2213 on Sunday September 4, 1983, that the 34ft yacht Hydrovane, on charter, was in trouble in the Sound of Jura.<...
The American Tug TID 76, and The Minca and Clover Leaf
AUGUST 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.45 at night. the Deal coastguard reported that a tug, with a barge in tow, was about four miles to the south-east of the South Goodwin No. 2 Buoy. A north-west gale was blowing, with blinding rain and a very...
Ling and Cabin Cruiser Dorella
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
Scarab
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 2.13 p.m.
on I2th April, 1964, inshore rescue boat no. 7 was launched to aid the yacht Scarab, which, with a crew of two on board, had run aground on the bar. There was a moderate south-westerly...
Temple Insurance
Temple Insurance Brokers Ltd., specialist Marine Craft Insurance Brokers, Members of the British Insurance Brokers Association, are pleased to offer Shoreline Members and other 'Lifeboat' readers special terms for their personal...
Category: Advertisement
Morag
Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report had been...
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1854
IN various parts of the Life-boat Journal, we have expressed a strong conviction of the utter inadequacy of all existing means for affording succour to shipwrecked persons around our coasts. We have mourned over it as a national discredit,...
Category: Articles
Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Sprite
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — On 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M. the motor lifeboat Edward Z....