During a strong S. gale on the 13th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Thomas, of and from Liverpool, for Amlwch, laden with coal, which was lying at anchor in Bed Wharf Bay.
The crew of the Life-boat...
Lieutenant F. W. Hayes, E.N.B., late District Inspector of Life-boats, died in a nursing home on 21st August. He was only in his thirty-fourth year. He was educated at Malvern College, and then became a cadet on H.M.S....
Category: Obituaries
To MRS. RALPH, in recognition of her valuable co-operation in connexion with Life-boat Day at Plymouth, the Record of Thanks.
To Miss ADA L. GRANGE, in recognition of her ralnable co-operation at Bognor, a Framed Picture of...
Category: Awards
THEBE'S a port beyond the sky-line, Though its lights I cannot see, But my Pilot's in the offing, And He's watching there for me.
Though my bark be old and batter'd, And is wanting many a spar, Yet He'll...
Category: Songs
FRENCH FISHING BOAT IN PERIL St. Helier, Jersey.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 16th of September, 1947, a message was received from the har- bour office that two men had rowed ashore at La Rocque from the fishing boat Cormorant, of Dinan,...
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 5.30 P.M. on the 17th February, 1938, on a message from the coastguard that they had seen a schooner drift ashore west of Shoreham.
A...
YACHT AGAINST TIDE Hoylake, Cheshire. At 3 p.m. on igth October, 1963, the yacht Spindrift II was seen to be making little headway against a strong tide. As it was unlikely that the yacht would reach a safe anchorage before darkness fell,...
Danish fishing vessel aground KIRKWALL COASTGUARD fired maroons to alert the lifeboat at 2045 on Friday, March 5, having seen a fishing vessel, Marianne Bodker of Denmark, ashore on Coubister Skerries.
The 70' Clyde...
Shortly before Sam on Saturday, 10 March, both Lough Swilly lifeboats were called to rescue a burning fishing vessel. Mulroy Coastguard also launched and rescued the skipper, who had abandoned the burning vessel and was in a liferaft. He was...
Let's campaign to improve safety at sea! As an RNLI member, I was interested to read the Director's message in the Winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT and the Newspoint on page 147 suggesting that the RNLI is at last looking at ways to...
Category: Correspondence