LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ex Bacchus
On the 13th July the motor boat ex-Bacchus, while on passage from Burnham-on-Crouch to Southend-on-Sea, with a woman and two men aboard, ran out of petrol off West Shoebury buoy and began to drift helplessly. A moderate W. breeze was blowing...
A Yacht (6)
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.23 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small yacht was in diffi- culties off Ramrose Head. The life- boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4) put out at...
Cover Picture
Recovery ofClogher Head's 35' 6" Liverpool lifeboat, Thomas Corbett. She has been beached, turned and then recarriaged. The tractor has been attached and all is ready for towing up the beach to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Loftus, of Padstow
On the night of the 8th November, the sloop Loftus, of Pad- stow, in entering that port, was compelled to anchor in Hell Bay, exposed to a strong westerly wind and heavy sea. At daylight she was discovered from the shore with a flag of...
Wallaroo
Piel (Barrow), Lancashire.—On the 2nd September the yacht Wallaroo, which was pleasure-cruising with five people on board, was overtaken by bad weather. She got into difficulties and was eventually anchored in a dangerous position about two...
Chantecler
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—Early in the afternoon of the 16th March the auxiliary yacht Chantecler, of Lytham, broke away from her moorings. A strong east breeze was blowing, with amoderate sea. As no one was on board the yacht, the motor...
Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
Category: Articles
A Submarine
On the 5th February, when a moderate southerly breeze was blowing, a wireless message was received? stating that a vessel was ashore on the South Scroby Sands.
This happened at 5.45 A.M., and within twenty minutes the No. 1...
Fishing Boats
On the 24th December a strong northerly gale sprang up whilst the Redcar fishermen were at sea. All the boats managed to reach the shore with the exception of two, one of which, with some difficulty, got ashore at Marsk. The other boat...