LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Cabin Cruiser
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—-At 6.25 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser, with three aboard, was in distress to the east of Tyne North Pier Light. When the life- boat crew assembled, a...
Patriotic Life-Boat Song
THE ocean lies in peaceful sleep, Its waters murmuring low, The tumult of the waves is gone, And Boreas presses slow.
The sky now frowns and grim the arch That spans the watery way, The sea full rises in revolt And joins in...
Category: Songs
Chariton
At about 1.30 A.M. on the 9th July, while the steam tug Helen Peele, stationed at Padstow, was returning to that place after her annual cruise, a vessel was sighted about two miles from her flying the " Not under control " signal....
Silver Line, Rosamund, Cutty Sark and Brighter Hope
JUNE 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a light northerly breeze was blowing, but there was a strong swell breaking about four hundred yards outside the harbour entrance, and a fishing coble, attempting to make...
Hannah
On the 4th March the sloop Hannah, of Liverpool, being driven into Ratwharf bay, and a gale coming on, hoisted signals of distress, when the Moelfre life-boat proceeded to her aid, and found the crew helpless from fatigue and long...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! If you're considering buying an outboard, whatever the size, you'll have noticed that almost every manufacturer promises greater reliability as an...
Category: Advertisement
Heron
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
A United States Aircraft
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a United States aircraft was in difficulties off Orfordness and that her pilot might have to bale...
A Boat and a Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.55 on the morning of the 9th August, 1961, the coxswain learnt that a small boat with one person on board was in difficulty about three quarters of a mile off shore in Red Wharf Bay. A helicopter was called, and...