LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Boat (2)
MAY 30TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, AND WORTHING, SUSSEX. During the afternoon a sailing boat, with a crew of two, father and son, capsized about two miles off Goring. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea.
At...
After the Wreck
ONLY a broken rudder, only a ruin'd sail— Only a shatter'd topmast, only a sea-bird's wail.
Here is the good ship's pinnace—all of her that is left— There are the yards and rigging—a tangled woof and...
Category: Poetry
Committee Cheque
Committee cheque In September members of the Pembrokeshire 175 Anniversary committee visited Cardigan lifeboat station to admire the new Atlantic 75 lifeboat Tanni Grey and to present a cheque for £7,000, part of the final balance of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Rannoch
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel fonnd her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from Glasgow...
While Paul Squire
While Paul Squire, singer and comedian, was appearing in Bridlington for last summer's season, he helped to raise money for the RNLI time and time again—nothing was too much trouble. So, when the time came for him to leave. Coxswain Fred... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (2)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
Tempo
FEBRUARY 3RD. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
At 1.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship’s life-boat about 1 1/2 miles N. of Carr Rock, Berwick-on-Tweed, with men on board, was in need of help. A full...
Whippingham
The paddle steamer Whippingham, of South- ampton, while on a pleasure trip from Ryde to Bournemouth on the afternoon of the 5th September, was in difficulties through a defect in the paddle wheels and began to leak, when about six miles...
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham Director of the Rnli Visited Newcastle Lifeboat Station During a Tour of Ireland Lust December With Him Lire (I to R) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy Crew Member
Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham, Director of the RNLI, visited Newcastle lifeboat station during a tour of Ireland lust December. With him lire (I. to r.) Motor Mechanic Gerald Murphy, Crew Member Jim Smyth, Second Coxswain Samuel McCulli ugh.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
God Bless the Life-Boat
WHEN in dark night of winter, fierce storms of wind and rain Howl round the cosy homestead, and lash the window pane, When over hill and tree top, we hear the tempest's roar, And hurricanes go sweeping on, from valley to the shore, When...
Category: Poetry