LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wild Duck II
Southwold, Suffolk.—The coastguard telephoned at 12.50 P.M. on the 22nd September that a small yacht about half a mile south of the coastguard station was making signals of distress.
A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with...
The S.S. Irwell
At 4.35 A.M. on the 30th November information was received that a Government trans- port vessel—the s.s. In/cell, of Goole —with twenty men on board, had struck the bar and was driving ashore into Seaford Bay. The Motor Life-boat Sir FitzRoy...
News
Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
CULLERCOATS AND OTHER LlFE-BOATS.
—On the 13th February stormy weather prevailed 'on our north-east coast, and many of-the boats which had proceeded to their fishing-grounds were placed in great jeopardy in returning to...
"The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound."
WE have pleasure in introducing to our readers the following extracts from a beautiful poem entitled " The Wreck of the Homeward-Bound," by the well-known Author of " Ruins of Many Lands," " Pleasure,"...
Category: Poetry
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
AMONGST the most interesting and im- portant subjects which, from time to time, have been treated in The Life-boat Journal, is that of the means to be resorted to for the restoration of the apparently drowned, and it is one in which the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. State of Georgia
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE.—The Life-boat John R. Ker was launched at 10.30 P.M.
on the 17th February, and remained by the S.S. State of Georgia, of Glasgow until two steamers arrived on the following morning and took her in tow,...
Gerlinde
LAUNCHED IN MIST At i p.m. on 2yth May, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a report had been received that a large vessel had gone aground west of the harbour entrance.
Visibility was very bad because of mist, it...
Letters
Twin pedal power For Northfleet Carnival I built a lifeboat round my bicycle and here is a photograph of 'yours truly' at the helm (or should I say handlebars?) while pedalling along in the carnival on July 1. We had a collection...
Category: Correspondence
Rubin, of Liverpool
On the 21st of January the Lytham life-boat again rendered a most important service. On the morning of that day a vessel was observed pn the Salthonse Bank making signals of distress, it blowing a hard gale from the N.W., with a heavy...