LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Patte
Barrow, Lancashire. At 9.5 on the morning of the 12th of May, 1958, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing vessel was in difficulty and aground half a mile off Sandy Gap, Walney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at...
Olivia Maersk
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
Category: Articles
Drama in the dark
On the evening of 11 September 2014, the St Agnes lifeboat sped towards granite cliffs. It was the calmest night of the year – but, inside a flooded cave, a hidden drama was unfolding
Helmsman...
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The S.S. Rannoch
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
Liana
YACHT FOUND AND TOWED TO HARBOUR St. Ives, Cornwall. About 9.30 on the evening of the 20th July, 1962, some local fishermen told the honorary secretary that the crew of the yacht Faith II, which had returned to harbour because of bad weather...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...
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The Life-Boat Crew
MY theme is a very old one Yet one that's ever new, 'Tis about those sturdy heroes The gallant life-boat crew.
Each year they add fresh laurels To their glorious scroll of fame; Their daring deeds are known to all...
Category: Poetry
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Storm Finch
At 5.20 P.M. on the 4th June, the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on Margate Sands, and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 5.40 P.M. A moderate easterly breeze was blowing, with a...