LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JANUARY 11TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning the police telephoned that a vessel was in distress off the Cable Hut, Ballyvester, Donaghadee.

The motor life-boat Civil Service No. 5 was launched at 1.15. A...

APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.

At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.

The...

FISHING VESSEL ON FIRE Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 3.0 in the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1947, a message was received from the Wyre Lighthouse that a motor fishing vessel, the Wyvern, of Ramsgate, bound for Fleetwood, was making distress...

Nov. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.

It was eight at night when the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched to the help of a foreign steamer, the Georgios, of Piraeus. The night was very dark. A moderate wind was...

Dover, Kent. At 9.36 on the morn- ing of the 2nd of February, 1960, the coastguard told the coxswain that a boat was burning flares off Shakespeare cliff to the west of Dover. At 9.55 the life-boat Southern Africa put out in a moderate south...

APRIL 7TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.

At 4.10 P.M., the coastguard informed the life-boat station that a sailing barge bound north had not been reported for some time.

A northerly pale was blowing with a very...

Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the after- noon of the 23rd of February, 1957, three local fishing boats were at sea.

The wind had freshened from the south- east, causing a very heavy sea at the harbour mouth, and the life-boat...

'Currie explores the enormity of the beautiful and the placidness of the wild.

Within this dichotomy he engages with the horizon as a stablising force to which the viewer steers a path - an imaginary line between air... - View image in PDF