LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Naval Whaler
The Lizard, Cornwall. At 6.30 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1960, in- formation was received that a naval whaler manned by an officer and four cadets on passage from Falmouth to Penzance was off the Lizard and might be in difficulties...
Enterprise
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the llth of August, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat with two men on board was having considerable diffi- culty in making the shore. The life-boat...
A Motor Boat
Hartlepool, Co, Durham. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 12thSeptember, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off the Heugh break- water. The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...
Zeeland
PATIENT ON DUTCH TUG At 10.3 p.m. on i9th February, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain that the Dutch tug Zeeland, which was standing by the coaster David M. off Hayle Bar, had an injured man on board who needed medical attention....
Rigil
WAS TOWED CLEAR Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 3.15 a.m. on i8th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was lying close inshore at Holm Head in a moderate sea with fresh to strong north-westerly breezes. It...
Fame
Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 17th of May, 1960, the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched one hour after high water to the help of the motor fishing vessel Fame of Lossiemouttu which was ashore on...
Golden Hope
ENGINE BREAKDOWN At 8.22 a.m. on 25th October, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that the skipper of the fishing-vessel Golden Hope had radioed, asking for his vessel to be kept under observation because her engine had broken down. The...
Schiller
"Oh, many a bark, to that breast grappled fast, Has gone down to the fearful and fathomless grave; Again, crash'd together the keel and the mast, To je seen tost aloft in the glee of the wave1." SCHILLER L 2.
Category: Poetry
Ceres
KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and...
Kate Agnes, of St Johns
On the 10th February, the barque Kate Agnes, of St. John's, N.B., came broadside on the beach near Irvine during a strong wind from W.N.W. The same life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and in two trips brought safely ashore the...