LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Araiva
At 3.45 P.M. on the 8th March the Signalman reported that two boats were adrift to the east of the Pier, in a very heavy snowstorm. A N.W. gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. Without delay the crew of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9...
Sarah Ann
On the 17th February, shortly before 11 P.M., whilst the schooner Sarah Ann, of Fowey, was bound from London to Bridport, with a cargo of cement, she stranded on the Newcombe Bar Her signals for assis- tance were seen by the Coastguard who...
Gertrud
At daybreak on the 2nd October the watchman observed a steamer ashore on the Scroby Sand, and at once reported the matter. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...
Prosperity
GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.—While a gale was blowing from the N.W., with a very rough sea on the morning of the 17th November, the smack Prosperity, of Carnarvon, was seen in the offing labouring against the wind, and shortly afterwards she showed a...
Kragero (1)
BARMOUTH and PWLLHELI.—On the 2nd August the Life-boats Jones Gibb, stationed at Barmouth, and Margaret Plait stationed at Pwllheli, proceeded to the assistance of the barque Kragero, of Krageio, bound from Wilmington, South Carolina, for...
Gannet
WEXFORD.— The yawl Gannet, of Wexford, showed signals of distress, having grounded close to the stones of the north embankment in a strong gale from W. to W.N.W., with heavy squalls and a moderate sea, on the 3rd...
Sunbeam
On returning to port at about 9 P.M. on the 4th January a drifter reported that another drifter, Sunbeam, belonging to Torquay, but fishing from Brixham, had asked her to stand by, as her engine had failed.
The Sunbeam was...
Servic
During a whole S. by E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, on the 13th January, the 'oxswain was at the Coastguard Look- out, when, at 10.25 A.M., a message was received from Gorleston that a vessel off Gorton was firing a signal for...
lasgair
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 9.55 on the night of the llth of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor yacht had broken down and was drift- ing towards the Quern Sands. She had refused a tow from a local motor boat, but a watch was kept...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Captain William Watts-Williams, the coxswain of the St. David's life-boat. Captain Watts-Williams first went to sea at the age of thirteen, forty-nine years ago, and after a long and varied career,...
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