LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On Sunday morning, the 17th January, the Lifeboat Coven t Garden arrived at Yarmouth Harbour, bringing four of the hands of the schooner Jasper, of Fowey, and the body of one of the crew, who had died from exposure while...

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When a teenage boy found himself caught in a tidal backwash, his friends watched in horror – could anyone reach him before it was too late?

On 7 September the 13-year-old was playing with his...

How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1931.

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,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...

Shortly after 4.30 P.M. on the llth March a telegram was received from St. Abbs stating that a large vessel was sinking off the Head with a fishing boat standing by her. The assembly signal for the Life-boat's crew was fired and within...

PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.

on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....

God help our men at sea! In firelit, pictured rooms, 'mid wine and flowers, And gleesome company, The wild winds awe us, in our blithest hours, To sigh this prayer; God help our men at sea ! I had a brother once. Our love ne'er...