LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of...

Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...

St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 4.58 p.m. on 28th November, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt from the coastguard that the motor vessel Marchion Enterprise had taken the yacht Barranquilla in tow with a broken propeller shaft coupling...

Dover, Kent - At 3.53 p.m. on 24th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an open boat with two men in it had been seen drifting eastwards in the Channel. The life-boat Southern Africa was launched at 4.23 in a light...

CRUDEN.—On the 27th February, the Life-boat Peep o' Day was launched about 3.30 A.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 3 men, from the schooner Blossom, of Aberdeen. This vessel had missed stays in the bay, and bad gone ashore on...

At 9.30 A.M.

on the 15th July the fleet of cobles belonging to Whitby were out fishing in a heavy ground swell. One of the cobles, with three men in her hanging on to their nets, was suddenly swamped by a heavy sea and sunk...

St. Ives, Cornwall. At 9.19 on the night of the 14th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a small boat in St. Ives Bay. At 9.35 the life-boat Frank and William Gates, on temporary duty at the...

A dozen of hearts! and a dozen of hands ! I And the courage of death!—'tis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.

For a cry came over the wailing sands, And...