LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heilo
On 2nd January a wireless message was received that a steamer, the Heilo, of Oslo, was dis- abled with a broken rudder sixty-five miles away in the Atlantic with a trawler standing by. A whole W.S.W.
gale was blowing with a...
A German Aeroplane’s Rubber Dinghy
DECEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Shortly before 10 A.M. the coastguard reported an object, apparently a boat, about one mile E.S.E. of Sizewell look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at...
Life-Boat Song
SING Ho! ho 1 ho! how the wild winds blow, And the breakers in fury foam, While, with thund'ring roar, o'er the storm-swept shore, The waves in their frenzy roam! Oh, many a ship, in the storm-fiend's grip, Would add to the...
Category: Songs
Several Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing cobles put to sea in the early morning of the 6th January, but soon after 7 A.M. the wind veered to N.E. and increased to a strong gale. Ten of the cobles were sufficiently near home to gain a shelter, but three were...
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1983
Aberdovery, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 3,10,15,18,19 (twice), 28 and September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 11, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, September 1 (twice), 4,7,11,19 and 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: August 3, 6, 7, 13,19...
Category: Services
The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...
Category: Articles
Weather Forecasts
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
Category: Articles
Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
Norfolk maritime heroes and legends
by Mark Nicholls
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Mark Nicholls is an awardwinning journalist with the Eastern Daily Press and a critically acclaimed defence correspondent...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart
ONCE more we are in a position to present to our readers a review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1912, based upon the Abstracts of Shipping...
Category: Articles
Crossword Competition
Competition Crossword COXSWAIN ARTHUR LiDDON of Dover, who has compiled this crossword puzzle, is kindly giving as a prize for the first correct solution to be opened a colour enlargement of Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat Faithful...
Category: Articles