LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat from a Trawler
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
£69,494 from Life-Boat Days In 1940.
Never has there been such a generous response by the public to the appeal of life-boat flag days as in 1940. The number of branches which held flag days was 771, and 475 of them raised larger sums than ever before. The number of people who...
Category: Articles
A Coble
Lightning strike Bridlington's Mersey class 1 ifeboat Peggy and Alex Caird, alerted in the service above, is pictured in action later, on 27 June 1989, when she was called to the aid of a Whitbyregistered coble. The vessel had been...
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
Ulundi
About 10 P.M. on the 26th January signals of distress were observed on the North Sands. The Life-boat's crew was summoned arid the James Stevens No. 16 j proceeded to the spot. There they found the steam trawler Ulundi, of Grimsby,...
Coniston
At 6.20 in the morning of the 15th November signals of distress were seen from a schooner riding in Ramsey Bay. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched in the teeth of a S.E. gale and a terrible sea and proceeded to the vessel, which proved...
A Pilot Wherry
WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...
Laurel
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—During the morning of the 2nd of May, 1951, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local motor fishing boat Laurel, overdue with a crew of four in bad weather; so at 11.15 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was...
Mabel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, the owner of the yacht Mabel, of Dun Laoghaire, told the coxswain that he had tried to take the yacht out of the harbour, but that she had broken down and...
The Garbage Lighter Gerrard
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.22 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a barge was driving towards the boom defence off Shoeburyness. At 8.50 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was...