LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

WHITBY.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 6th December, during a strong gale from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, with snow, the brig Star of Hope, of and for Newcastle from Dieppe, in ballast, became embayed between Whitby and Upgang Rocks. She then ran for...

Books Cromer lifeboats 1804-2004 by Nicholas Leach and Paul Russell Published byTempus ISBN 0752431978 Price: £16.99 paperback In 2004, BBC viewers in Norfolk voted Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer their most famous local hero, above...

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.43 on the afternoon of the 1st of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Baalbek, of Oslo, had hit the Great Nore Tower Forts. One of the towers had collapsed, and a number of men from the...

• Rescue At Sea by John M. Waters, Jr. Captain U.S. Coast Guard (D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.) This well produced and strikingly illustrated book written by a senior officer of the U.S. Coast Guard makes fascinating and absorbing reading of...

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RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the Gull light-ship on the 24th June, the Bradford Life-boat went out at 3.30 A.M., and proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, where the schooner Lizzie, of Fleetwood, coal laden, was stranded.The...

St. Helier, Jersey - At 5.36 p.m. on ipth October, 1966, Jersey radio reported that the French trawler Jouet des Vagues, of St. Malo, required assistance as she was in difficulties in heavy seas, about nine miles west of La Corbiere...

Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.

Such reliability does...