LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rhs Awards:
RHS awards: as well as letters of thanks from the RNLI, three Southend lifeboatmen were presented with awards from the Royal Humane Society after they rescued an 84-year-old man who fell from Southend Pier in November 1984. They saved his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
The Restoration of Persons Apparently Drowned
WHAT member is there of any Christian community who has not meditated, with feelings of reverential and grateful emotion, on the miraculous restoration to life of LAZARUS after he had been dead four days ? Who is there that has not pictured...
Category: Articles
Melfort
Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...
The Dredger Beverwjk
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.52 p.m. on i8th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Dutch tug with the dredger Beverwjk in tow from Holland to the Tees had broken adrift and had been seen heading for the Tyne...
Fishing Boats (1)
CULLERCOATS AND OTHER LlFE-BOATS.
—On the 13th February stormy weather prevailed 'on our north-east coast, and many of-the boats which had proceeded to their fishing-grounds were placed in great jeopardy in returning to...
Sisters, of Whitby
On the night of the 26th February, the brig Sisters, of Whitby, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Barber Sand, off Caistor. Her signals of distress being seen from the shore, the Caistor boatmen proceeded to launch the...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...
Category: Services
Lotona
The barquentine Latona, oi Portsmouth, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sun- derland on the 30th January, stranded on the Smithic Sand. A whole gale was blowing from the north with a heavy sea running, and the weather was very cold with snow....
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...