LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Appeal
THE following verses, an appeal to yachtsmen for the Life-boat Service, appeared in the Bulletin of the Cruis- ing Association for October of last year under the heading "Royal National Life-boat Institution." Beneath them was...
Category: Poetry
A Canoe
JULY 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.21 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized oil Ness Point. A gentle S.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was...
None
The rescue of a swimmer and two earned the helmsman and crew of lifeguards who had gone to his aid has Sunderland's D class lifeboat and two shore helpers a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations.The incident began at...
Margrethe Bakke
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
Margrethe Bakke (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
THREE MATERNITY CASES
THREE MATERNITY CASES Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—A severe blizzard on the 12th of March, 1947, isolated Campbeltown. On the morning of the 15th a woman with child in the Southend district needed a doctor, and at 10.50 that, morning the motor...
IN GOOD HANDS
When an experienced boater fell into the River Dart after an evening cruise with his wife and young son, it quickly dawned on him he was in grave danger
For Simon Burton, a leisurely family cruise on 24 June turned into a...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat belonging to Dunelm
Holy Island, Northumberland. — On the morning of the 25th March the coastguard reported that a small boat belonging to the tug Dunelm, with a boy on board, was drifting seawards from the harbour. A N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea...
Endeavour
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 4.8 on the afternoon of the 16th of October, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the local motor fishing boat Endeavour had broken down four miles to the north- north-west, and at 4.20 the life-boat George and Sarah...
A Yacht (3)
Plymouth, Devon.—4th October. A yacht got into difficulties and ran on a sandy beach, but the two people on board managed to get ashore. Later one of them, a lady doctor, gave a present of money to the crew, and a donation to the...