LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
James B. Graham, of Hartlepool
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a flare was seen, and was...
The Screw Steamer Ocean Queen, of Newcastle
About 1-30 A.M., on the 19th April, the weather being thick and foggy, signals of distress were observed from a vessel on the rocks off this place.
The Whitby life-boat Lucy was soon launched through a heavy surf, and suc-...
The S.S. Copeland
About 7.30 A.M. on the 14th March, during a fog and misty rain, the s.s. Copeland, of Glasgow, bound from London to Southampton, stranded at Eastborough Head. In answer to signals of distress from the Owers Light-vessel and the steamer, the...
William and Alice
The schooner William and Alice, of Hull, whilst bound from that port to Grays with a cargo j of coal, stranded on the Cockle Sand on I the 31st August. The crew of the No.
; 2 Life-boat Nancy Lucy were assembled and the...
Anna Henny
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of November, 1952, the Redcar coastguard tele- phoned that he had fired a rocket to warn a vessel that she was heading for Salt Scar Rocks. The vessel did not seem to...
Lecko
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 24th of September, 1956, South Gare coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel was aground near the look-out. She was not in any immediate danger. At 10.30 the life- boat John and Lucy...
The Salvors of Property on the English Coasts
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
Letters
The winter 2004/05 issue of the Lifeboat included a plea for help from Shoreline member Nigel Whitfield, who has been dubbed a mere 'land lubber' by his boss, a keen dinghy sailor and diver. Our readers came up trumps for Nigel, and...
Category: Correspondence