LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anapira
HAETLEPOOI.— On the otfa December the schooner Anapira, of Newburgfa, was observed about seven miles E.N.E. of Hartlepool. At the time a, most severe gale was raging, accompanied by sleet showers and a heavy sea. At 2.30 she was seen to put...
Emerald Isle
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th March, at about 6.80 P.M., the trawler, Emerald Isle, of Whitehaven, which had been beating about in the bay for about three hours, evidently waiting for water, suddenly made for the harbour mouth, and...
The S.S. Chamois
WINTEETON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Lifeboat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat in...
Our Life-Boat
OUR boat lies up yonder; She 's the pride of the place; To man her 's our duty, All perils to face.
Across the dark ocean We fearlessly ride; To save life in danger We scorn the fierce tide.
Hark! ...
Category: Poetry
Broughty Castle
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from the S.S.W. and a heavy sea was running, the schooner Broughty Castle, of Londonderry, coal laden, from Swansea for Douglas, was being towed into port by a small...
Helen Birch, of Hull,
Wells, Norfolk.—About 1.30 P.M. on the 8th December, 1937, information was received from a man and from the coastguard that a ship was flying a distress signal, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee 1910-1935 was launched at 2.50 P.M....
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the afternoon of the 6th September the coast watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was making SOS signals. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather was thick. The sea...
Alert
Moelfre, Anglesey.—During a whole S.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 11.30 P.M. on the 13th December to the help of the schooner Alert, of Falmouth, which had lost some of her sails and one of her...
B.P. Marketer
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lanes.—At 7.10 on the evening of the 18th of April, 1957, a Preston firm of shipping agents telephoned to say they had received a call from the master of the tanker B.P. Marketer, of London, reporting that a member...
Pygmalion
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 3.41 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing vessel Pygmalion, of Fleetwood, had broken down off Manghold Head and needed help.
The life-boat...