LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Rowing and Sailing Boat
JULY 16TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
At 12.25 in the afternoon the Banff coastguard telephoned that a small rowing and sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties about one mile north-north-east of Banff. A fresh south-east...
A Boat (1)
SEPTEMBER 11TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 12.40 in the afternoon a boatman reported that two boys had gone out in a boat and been lost to sight. It was getting foggy, and anxiety was felt for their safety. A light southerly breeze was...
None (45)
OCTOBER 12TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 6.30 in the evening a telephone message was received from the local doctor asking the life-boat to take a seriously injured man to Oban. He was a woodman and had had his foot badly crushed while...
Double trouble
24 September: Eastbourne Two jet skiers were attempting a passage from Newhaven to the Sovereign Light Tower when one of their craft suffered engine failure. They tried to use the craft that was still working to...
Category: Articles
Lines on Seeing a Life-Boat In An Inland Town
GOD speed thee, thou life-boat! for blest is thy mission— To save poor weak man from the wild ocean's rage; When the heavens are black, and the dark waves are roaring, And dread is the war which the elements wage.
All...
Category: Poetry
Spray
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The Whitby fishing boats had gone out about 9 in the morning, and a strong S.W. wind had got up, bringing a rough sea. By three in the afternoon all had returned to harbour except the coble...
Fishing Cobles
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
Stephen Harding, of Caldy Island
FEBRUARY 23RD. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor boat Stephen Harding, of Caldy Island, was crossing to the mainland, she had trouble with her propeller shaft and had to anchor about a mile and a half south-west of...
Snowdrop
MAY 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At nine o’clock in the morning the coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore at Scotstown Head.
The sea was smooth, but there was a dense fog. The motor life-boat Julia...
Penguin
AUGUST 14TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At noon information was received from a resident of Millisle and the coastguard, that a small yacht, with two boys aboard. had broken from her moorings and was two miles off Ballywhiskin, drifting swiftly...