LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Story
A dozen of hearts! and a dozen of hands ! I And the courage of death!—'tis a Yorkshire boast; It was all they asked one November noon When a hurricane blew on the Whitby coast.
For a cry came over the wailing sands, And...
Category: Poetry
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
THE United States Government have recently issued their report of their Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1888. From it we learn that at the close of the fiscal year in question there were 222 life-saving stations, 170...
Category: Articles
Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
Category: Articles
Margaret
LYDD, DUNOENESS.—On the evening of the 10th of January, signals of distress were shown by a vessel anchored in the East Bay, Dungeness, during a moderate W.S.W. gale and a rough sea. The David Hulett Life-boat was launched at 6.30 P.M., and...
Holly How
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message havisg been received on the night of the 28th March reporting a vessel stranded on Crosby Beach, the steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland left her moorings at 11.20 and proceeded through a heavy sea, the...
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
A Tug
Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
Edina
JUNE 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
At 10.2 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore near Keiss Castle. The sea was smooth, with a light E.S.E. wind, but there was dense fog. The motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was...
Dijon and Peebles (1)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...