LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sweet William By Rosemary Whitten
A MARATHON 278-MILE DONKEY TROT FROM ST IVES TO LONDON 'Hey, what's that Freisian donkey doing staked out on your grass?' The cheerful farmer's voice stopped the conversation in the comfortable bar of The White Hart,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
Three Brothers
FEBRUARY 11TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 9.30 at night the King’s harbour master telephoned that Portwrinkle coastguard had reported flashes. Further reports were received from other coastguards, but it was uncertain whether...
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
A Gift from An Infants' School
A SHORT time ago the Institution lent to the head mistress of an infants' school in a very poor part of London, one of its models in glass tanks, which are used for showing how a self-righting Life- boat empties herself of water and...
Category: Donations
June (1)
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 1.25 in the morning of the 22nd of May, 1943, the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore at Kettleness. A light northerly wind was blowing, the weather was fine and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
Lynian
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 11.30 on the night of the 6th of August, 1958, a fisherman on returning ashore re- ported to the signal station that he had seen a flare east of Herm. He had carried out a search but had found nothing. At one...
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
Mars
DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
The Norseman, of Montrose
OCTOBER 31ST. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 8.5 at night the Portpatrick coastguard reported a fishing vessel making distress signals off the Isle of Whithorn. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with heavy rain. The sea was very rough. The motor...