LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Casco
Also on the 22nd November, at 3 P.M., in reply to her signals of distress, this Life-boat boarded the Russian barque Caseo, of Bargo, which vessel was aground on the South Sand, it blowing hard from the N.E., with considerable sea. At the...
Blizzard Did Not Deter
ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...
Category: Services
Formosa
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At3 P.M. on the 29th April, just before high water, the yacht Formosa, of Carmarthen, started with four men on board to try to save some drowning cattle, which had strayed on to the Cefn Sidan Sand and had been...
Motor Fishing Boats
Early in the morning of the 8th January some of the motor fishing-boats put to sea, the ; weather at the time being moderate with but little wind. Later the wind shifted into the eastward and brought up a very heavy sea, causing the boats...
Quinquereme
ANCHOR TROUBLE Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 12.50 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the yacht Quinquereme, which had a crew of four, ran aground on the Layan sands. She refloated on the rising tide, but appeared to be in need of help, so...
Cover Picture
December 20, 1980: Yarmouth hie of Wight lifeboat, the 52ft Arun Joy and John Wade, on the traditional run to the Needles Lighthouse with Christmas fare. The photograph was taken bv Mr M. R. Cooke.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TOWN & COUNTRY
Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep.
Beneath the surface is a unique (ibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.
Its surface,...
Category: Advertisement
Telegraph
RAMSGATE.—Signal guns having been fired by the light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 18th March, and found the barquentine Telegraph, of Frederikshald, bound from Ghristiania...
Mary Watkinson
On the 12th February, signals of distress were shown by the three-masted schooner Mary Watkinson, of Barrow, and the Life-boat Thomas Fielden therefore went to her assistance. She was drifting towards the shore at Penrhos Point, dragging her...
Orchis
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 1.55 A.M.
on the 24th June, 1938, the watchman on the East Pier reported that a yacht south of the harbour was burning flares.
A light S.S.W. breeze was...