LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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HELP FOR ORPHANAGE Whitby, Yorkshire. At 4.25 p.m. on 27th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary's wife, in the absence of the honorary secretary, that four youths from a local orphanage were missing. At 5.25, on...
Alcina
Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been dismasted close to the Owers lightvessel. There was a fresh south-westerly wind with a rough sea, and the...
A Motor Cruiser
Rhyl, Flintshire. At 3.45 on the after- noon of the 28th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that he had a white object under observation, which might be a capsized yacht, and advised the launching of the life-boat...
Nancy of Teignmouth
On the 9th April, this boat was again called into use. The brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, was observed to part her cables, and go ashore at the Horse Bank; the life-boat was promptly launched, and proceeded to the aid of her crew, which...
Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
Category: Articles
Deux Amis
At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.
She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.
There was...
Book Reviews
A director of Shire Publications at Tring, Hertfordshire, recently had the excellent idea that a guide book should be produced based on life-boat stations.
This company specialises in the publication of unusual guides. The...
Category: Articles
Hesperus
CROMER.—On the 10th April the Cromer Life-boat was launched during an easterly gale and rough sea, and proceeded to the sloop Hesperus, of Copen-hagen, which had shown signals of distress when about three miles from the Life-boat Station. On...
Strindheim
Aberdeen.—At 2.29 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1956, the coastguard reported that the Norweg- ian steamer Strindheim, laden with timber, was due to arrive off Aberdeen about eight o'clock in the evening and would want help...
Black Bird
On 24th April, during fine weather, the Life-boat Albert Edward saved the small cutter yacht Slack Bird and her two occupants.
The vessel stranded on the Buxey Sands during the night and lost her...