LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lucy and a Speed Boat
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
The S.S. Dagenham and the S.S. Sherbrooke
NOVEMBER 16-20TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At about 2.45 P.M. the coxswain received a message from the Warden Point coastguard that a ship was sinking close to the Mouse Light-vessel. A strong easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
Book Reviews
The Men and the Boats by Bernard Ashley (Allman & Son, 15s.) is appro- priately the first book in a new series entitled 'Serving our Society'. Other volumes on the police and the fire service are in preparation. The book is...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon.—About seven in the evening, on the 31st of August, 1950, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a man in a rowing boat about a mile south of Prawle Point was in difficulties. At 7.15 the life-boat Mil- burn, 011 temporary...
The S.S. Suevic (2)
THE LIZARD, CADGWITH, COVERACK, and PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—A disas- ter of such magnitude as seldom occurs on the coast of the United Kingdom took place off Cornwall on the night of the 17th March. Thanks to the prompt action of the...
Henry Holman, of Plymouth
On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at...
Hoisting a Life-Boat from the Cut to Its Carriage
Hoisting A Life-Boat From The Cut To Its Carriage. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs