LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Rescue
"KEEP a sharp look-out, lads," Was our coxswain's warning cry, As he scanned the horizon seawards, Where breakers were rolling" high.
" It's a wild night, I fear, lads; We'll have stiff work...
Category: Poetry
A Tug (2)
JANUARY 17TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 3.53 P.M. the coastguard reported a small tug disabled and drifting in the Wash. A fresh N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the weather was described as ”arctic.” The motor life...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1902.
Captain the Hon. JOHN M. YORKE, R.N., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported that His Majesty THE KING had...
Category: Committee
Contest, of Guernsey
On the 16th Novem- i ber, the brig Contest, of Guernsey, was I stranded during a gale of wind from the I East, on the Hook Sands. The Manley I Wood life-boat at Poole went out three | times and took off 46 men from the...
Bust of Henry Blogg
A PLEASANT ceremony took place at Cromer on the 23rd May, 1962, when Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, unveiled a memorial to the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg. The memorial takes the form of a bronze bust and bronze...
Category: Articles
A Sunderland Flying Boat
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PLYMOUTH JANUARY 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At eight minutes past three in the morning a message came from the King’s Harbour Master that distress flares had been seen in Jennycliffe Bay, and at 3.38 the motor lifeboat...
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Category: Advertisement
Vrede
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
Bridlington, Yorkshire, Life-Boat Crewman Fred Walkington (Right) Bringing Ashore a German from the Pipe-Laying Barge Eider Who Had Received Head Injuries In a Gale. Below, the Bridlington Life
Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat crewman Fred Walkington (right) bringing ashore a German from the pipe-laying barge Eider who had received head injuries in a gale. Below, the Bridlington life-boat—a 37-foot Oakley—heading out into a 100... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (186)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
A parachutist from an aeroplane had been seen descending eight miles from Peveril Point, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £7 1s..