LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Goodwins
OFF the Kentish coast there lie, Sands of treacherous make, Which swallow many a ship, Who luckless get in their wake.
They say that Earl Godwin made, A terrible curse upon Any ship that passed that way, Would come to grief...
Category: Poetry
The Danish Steamer Sparta, Anna
JANUARY 11TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 A.M. the port war signal station reported that the Danish steamer Sparta was in difficulties, and a second message was received shortly afterwards that the Belgian steamer...
Homeward Bound
Late in 1995, seven members of Dunbar lifeboat crew and their Coxswain, Noel Wright, attended the pre-commissioning training for their new Trent class lifeboat at RNLI headquarters in Poole. The final part of the course was their passage...
Category: Articles
A Book of Flags
(Oxford University Press, 15s.) ADMIRAL CAMPBELL and Mr. I. O.
Evans, who has done much valuable and voluntary journalistic work on behalf of the Life-boat Service, have compiled an exhaustive and fascinat- ing book about...
Category: Articles
The Fleetwood M.V. Eleanora
FLEETWOOD MOTOR VESSEL BREAKS DOWN Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 12.30 a.m.
on Sunday the 1st September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares were being burnt about half a mile east of Danger Patch...
Oceanic II
A LONG SEARCH Margate, Kent, and Walton-on-the- Naze, Essex.—At 2.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Ameri- can steamer John Lefarge had reported that she had collided with and sunk a fishing...
A Steamer (4)
28th Feb- ruary. A steamer stranded, but did not want help.—Rewards, £24 13s..
Tom Paul
Workington, Cumberland. At 4.30 on the morning of the 21st of January, 1958, the honorary secretary was in- formed by a pilot that the pilot boat had not returned to harbour. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out at 8.30 in a...
Appeal updates
After 3 years of fundraising, Angle’s new Tamar class lifeboat Mark Mason is now on service at the Pembrokeshire station.
The fundraising was begun at grassroots level, with the launch of the Tamar4Angle appeal locally and...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Poole, Dorset. — At 10.30 on the night of the llth of March, 1957, a telephone message was received from the police that a boat with two boys on board was missing and that the boys' parents were becoming anxious.
A...