LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Appeal for the Life-Boat Institution
To help support this noble cause May we not plead in vain; God help the hearts that risk their lives For others on the main.
Far on the angry billows deep, Mid lightning's vivid gleam, "Where heav'n's...
Category: Poetry
Happy Harry
On 22nd February the Happy Harry, a schooner belonging to Whitehaven, bound, laden, from Glasgow to Wexford with a crew of four on board, ran ashore on the North Dogger Bank. She was seen by the Harbour Master, who telephoned to the...
George and Ann, of Cardigan
A severe gale was experienced at Peterhead, N.B., on the 22nd September, and two heavily-laden fishing-boats which had been proceeding northward made for the harbour. One, being more to the southward, was enabled to sail wi^h.j-her bow to...
Where There's a Will There's a Way
To HELP THE RNLI The RNLI needs some £48m to fulfil its commitments during 1992 - and to raise such a huge sum of money from entirely voluntary contributions the Institution looks to a vast number of very varied sources. Flag weeks,...
Category: Articles
May
Launches 26 Lives rescued 25 The War ended on the last minute of the 8th of May
MAY 9TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. A dinghy attached to a naval motor launch was seen by the life-boat coxswain to capsize off Fishcombe Point,...
Category: Services
Devon
PENMON, ANGLESEY.—On the afternoon of the 20th February, while a strong breeze was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea, the pilots observed a schooner strike on the Causeway rocks.
The crew of the Life-boat...
Chevereul
CARNSORE.—On the 21st December, at 2.15 A.M., a vessel was reported to be stranded in Churchtown Bay. The Lifeboat Iris proceeded there promptly, and found the barque Chevereul, of Havre, ashore there. The wind was blowing from the S.E.,...
The Recent Storms
OF all the stormy periods which have found noble work for our Life-boat Fleet, and which have tried the mettle of the brave fellows by whom it is manned, perhaps none have exceeded in violence and destructiveness that of the last few weeks....
Category: Articles
Pauline
On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become...
Juliana, of Riga
On the 26th November the Life-boat Reigate put off from this station and saved 8 persons which vessel had been driven into the ...