LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rewards of the Royal Humane Society
IT has been our custom from time to time to record the noble deeds of our Life- boat crews, who, acting on the promptings of an innate heroism, have, during winter storms, performed deeds of such desperate courage and patient endurance as to...
Category: Articles
The Coast-Guard Service: Its Origin and Life-Saving Work
A GOVERNMENT Service for the pre- vention of smuggling, from which the present Coast-guard Service has evolved, was already in existence in this country in the early part of the eighteenth century. In those days a consider- able force was...
Category: Articles
Letters
Thirty-five years back • Commander Pearson's encounter with the lifeboat service off the Scottish coast during the last war, described in his letter published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, interested me very much. Having spent a...
Category: Correspondence
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 8 o'clock in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard re- ported that ten local fishing boats were at sea and that the weather was getting worse, and the life-boat Tittie Morrison, Sheffield,...
Zulu Warrior
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.56 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the trawler Zulu Warrior of Castleton had broken down 7 miles eastby- west of Donaghadee. There was a strong westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The...
None (6)
Galway Bay. At 9.15 p.m. on iyth January, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he needed the life-boat's assistance to convey a badly injured man to the mainland. The lifeboat Mabel Marion Thompson left at 10 with...
Beowulf
The RNLI has been asking some of those who have been on the receiving end of a lifeboat service to complete a questionnaire giving the details as seen from their viewpoint.
The scheme is completely voluntary, but a large...
Fishing Boats
AUJBOROTOSH, SUFFOLK.—At 7.30 AM.
on the 6th December, 1883, a sudden gale from the N.I. sprang up accompanied by a very rough sea. The fleet of fishing boats was out, and two of the boats were unable to cross the shoals....
Fishing Cobles (1)
Five of the small fishing cobles were overtaken by a strong N.E. gale when out for the purpose of obtaining their crab pots on the 17th March. They at once aban- doned their fishing and returned to port.
The weather was...
Pam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 12.30 P.M. on Sunday, the 26th February, 1939, the coastguard reported that a small boat was in distress about half a mile southeast of Newhaven. A light W.S.W.
wind was blowing and the sea was choppy....