LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adrian (1)
JANUARY 4TH. - ALDEBURGH, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 6.5 P . M .
a message was received from the Aldeburgh coastguard that a steamer, about five miles at sea, was making signals on her siren, but that they were not...
Zamaya, of Dartmouth
JULY 14TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 9.43 in the morning the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that there was a boat about two miles off shore, and, a few minutes later, that she was hove to and showing a distress signal. The...
Advance
On the 22nd August a whole gale of wind blew from the N.E., the sea was very heavy, and^as risk would be incurred by the fishing craft in returning to port, the Life-boat was launched at 4.30 A.M. At 5 o'clock the lugger Advance capsized...
Welcome
Some stories hit you right in the heart
From page 16 of this issue, we tell one of those stories. Stranded in a February sea after their kayak flooded, it was up to 13-year-old Joe to help get his dad to safety. Thinking...
Category: Articles
Globe (1)
St. David's, and Angle, Pembroke- shire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the St. David's coastguard telephoned the St. David's life-boat station that red flares had been seen eight miles north-west by north of...
Alice
— At 3.45 P.M. on the 26th December the Coxswain saw a schooner making for Swansea Harbour, and while doing so she took the ground on the east side of the east pier. A heavy N.W. gale was blowing at the time with a very heavy sea. The...
Book Reviews
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
Category: Articles
Echo, of London
Another excellent service was performed by this valuable life-boat on the 17th December. Soon after midnight a vessel was reported on shore at Eccles, about a mile and a half from Palling. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N.W. at...
Fishing Cobles (2)
On the 17th March the N.N.E. wind increased, causing a heavy sea on the bar, and as two of the cobles belonging to WThitby were still at sea the No. 2 Life-boat John Fielden was launched to their assistance. Considerable anxiety was felt...
Hope Crest
ump passed to sinking fishing boat in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Albert Sutherland and the crew of the Fraserburgh lifeboat took over three hours to battle through the 10-12m seas and a full south easterly gale to reach the fishing vessel...