LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Withhold Not Thine Hand."
BOGGED and rough the rocks of Albion's coast Stretch forth into the billows reef on reef, And many gallant vessels, tempest tost, There yearly come to grief.
Still, week by week the weary winter through, Braving the...
Category: Poetry
Huiberdina Gijsbertha
Aberdeen. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coast- guard reported that a message had been received from the Dutch vessel De Hoop that another Dutch vessel Huiberdina Gijsbertha of Katwijk a/Kee was aground on the north...
Empress of England
Padstow, Cornwall. At 8.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Eldorita had the motor launch Empress of England, which had one man aboard, in tow and was making for...
None (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 4.35 on the afternoon of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a bather was being washed out to sea off Winthorpe Avenue, north of Skeg- ness pier. At five o'clock the life- boat The Cuttle...
Durandel
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.34 on the evening of the 17th of December, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler had fired a red flare two miles south-south-east of Newhaven.
At 8.45 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...
Peace and Plenty
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 5th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller off Cuckmere haven and needed help. At 12.50 the life- boat Cecil and Lilian...
The Scarweather Lightvessel
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At7.14 on the morning of the 4th of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that a man in the Scarweather lightvessel had collapsed and needed hospital treat- ment. At 7.29 the Superintendent of Trinity House at...
Summer Rose
Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire.— At 5.50 on the afternoon of the 20th of May, 1956, the Portpatrick coast- guard reported that a fishing boat was in distress off Castle Point, Solway Firth, and was drifting towards the rocks. At 6.15 the...
Carraig Airz
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1956, the coxswain reported that a local lobster boat Carraig Airz was flying a distress signal off the Aran coast.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Cromer, Norfolk. At 7.50 on the morning of the 3rd of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a man on a rubber mattress appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting out to sea. No other boat being available,...