LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Grit
The Sandgate coast- guard telephoned to the coxswain, at 3 A.M. on the 22nd February, that a ship had been sounding S O S on her hooter. The sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. At 3.28 A.M.
the motor...
London Life-Boat Flag Day
As we go to press we are enabled to state that Life-boat Flag Day held throughout London on the 19th May was a great success, in spite of the fact that, unfortunately, the Y.M.C.A. had held their Hut Day on the 16th.
It is...
Category: Articles
Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
experiences of the most famous lone sailors of the Atlantic To: Maritime Book Society, PO Box 6, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 2DW I would like to join the Maritime Book Society and claim Challenge for only £1.00 post free (Allow up to 21...
Category: Advertisement
Johanne
At 8.40 P.M. on the 1st November the Coastguard reported that a message had been received from the North Goodwin Light- vessel stating that a vessel was ashore, and at about the same time another message was received by wireless tele- graph...
Margaret
G-BIMBBY,—At 9 A.M. on the 12th December the Manchester Unity Life-boat was launched to the assistance of the schooner Margaret of Carnarvon, which was ashore on the Trinity Sands with a signal of distress in her rigging. The Life-boat took...
Farida
Swanage, Dorset. At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Niton radio station had received a signal from the Dutch tanker Capricornus that she was standing by the yacht Farida...
Fig 2: After End Jacked Up So That Holes Can Be Drilled Through Deadwood for Keel Bolts the Longest Bolt Being 3Ft 6In
Fig. 2: After end jacked up so that holes can be drilled through deadwood for keel bolts, the longest bolt being 3ft 6in.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Empty Vessels."
A COLLECTOR was taking the " Boat" round among a group of working men, but nothing was forthcoming in the shape of contributions except a crop of caustic remarks reflecting upon the work of the Institution in general and the...
Category: Donations
Concurrent and Waterlily
FORMBY.—Two vessels being sighted in a very dangerous position on the Great Burbo Bank, having run aground in a fog, on the 21st March, the Life-boat John and Henrietta was launched at 8.15 A.M., and after a long pull reached the vessels and...
The S.S. Matching
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1951, Lloyd's agent reported that the S.S. Matching, of London, due off Gorleston at 6.0 that evening, had a sick man on board and had asked for a...