LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
[These verses on an unsuccessful life-boat launch, with their most dramatic ending, were written after a visit to the Kirkcudbright life-boat station by a company of five poets. Their names are recorded in the first stanza and their ages...
Category: Poetry
South America
The Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche was called out at 11.25 A.M. on the 13th March, by a tele- phone message which stated that a vessel was ashore about six miles south of the station. The boat proceeded to the vessel, which was found to be...
Fishing Boats
WHITHORN.—On the evening of the 12th July several small boats were fishingfor mackerel while a moderate breeze was blowing from W. The wind suddenly shifted to N., and increased to a strong gale. One of the boats contained the coxswain of...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...
Carmarthen Boat Club
Members of Carmarthen Boat Club present a £400 cheque to Mrs Gwynne Rees, vice-chairman of Carmarthen and Ferryside ladies' guild, following a sponsored parachute jump by 13 club members. George Jones, who broke a leg in the jump,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kingston Turquoise and two Rafts
SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...
Marzo
At 7.20 r.M.
| on 14th May the signal was lircd denoting the Life-bout was required to assist some vessel in distress, and a ; steamer was seen in the fog making for the shore to the east of...
A Trawler (2)
DECEMBER 2 6TH. - VALENTIA, CO.
KERRY. A trawler had been reported flying a distress signal, but only a buoy with a tall superstructure was found. - Rewards, £10 9s. 6d..
Cicely
Peel, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 P.M. on the 17th December, 1938, flares were seen four miles W.N.W. of Peel. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and visibility was very poor.
The motor life-boat Helen Sutton was...
Marie Hendrika
YACHT POUNDED AGAINST HARBOUR WALL Dover, Kent. At 1.25 on the afternoon of the 19th May, 1962, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Marie Hendrika was drifting into the full force of a westsouth-...