LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Voyage. By Alfred Tennyson, Esq.
WE left behind the painted buoy" That tosses at the harbour-mouth; And madly danced our hearts with joy, As fast we fleeted to the South; How fresh was every sight and sound On open main or winding shore ! We knew the merry world was...
Category: Poetry
The Motor Drifter White Heather
— On the evening of the 9th November a police- man reported that a man on Brechou Island had telephoned that a vessel thought to be his motor drifter White Heather, was showing signals of distress about three miles north of Sark. A...
Diana
BRIDLINGTON, February 1, 1988: a southerly gale to strong gale force 9 and the trawler Diana with three men aboard had been dodging the seas off Flamborough Head since the early hours of the morning. At 1530 the coastguard reported that she...
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
Hyannis to Rockland from Page 233
Hyannis to Rockland from page 233 were asked regarding the operation of a voluntary lifeboat service outside Government control. The predominantly shore based role of HM Coastguard was a fact which many of the audience found hard to...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Wedding
IN 1957 Miss Christine Ford, who was then aged 15, became the youngest honorary secretary of a financial branch. The branch was Portslade in Sussex. Her parents are both enthusiastic supporters of the life-boat service and for many months... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Smithfield
PALLING.—On the 28th October, at 4 A.M., during a fresh westerly wind, signals of distress from the North Hasborough Sands light were heard. The British Workman Life-boat proceeded out, and, when about 3 miles from the land, picked up a...
H.M. Drifter Silver Seas
FEBRUARY 3RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 4.5 in the morning the naval control at Southend reported that H.M.
drifter Silver Seas had been abandoned and was adrift to the west side of Southend pier.
Astraea and Alfred
BROADSTAIKS. — Flares were shown from vessels off the North Foreland while a whole gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and heavy squalls of hail, on the 27th January, and, in response, the Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton...