LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal
£ HOLYHEAD.—About 7.45 on the evening of Sunday, the 27th January, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, a vessel was seen in the outer roads burning signals of distress. The steam...
The Life-Boat Men
God bless the Life-boat men 1 Long live the noble men! God bless the men I And may they ever be, When tossed on stormy sea, In safety kept by Thee.
God bless the men! They count not their lives dear, Brave hearts that do...
Category: Poetry
Helea
GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.—While the Life-boat John Burch was out for exercise on the morning of the 9th January, a steamer was observed apparently on the Scroby Sands. The boat proceeded to the steamer, which proved to be the Helea, of...
Dunnikier
A tele- phone message from the Gunfleet Light- house at 8.31 A.M. on the 15th February reported that a vessel was on the Gunfleet Sands. The Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 promptly proceeded to the place indicated and found the steam ketch...
Rhodesia
During the afternoon of the 3rd December the Coxswain of the Life-boat Docea Chap- man was informed that an attempt was going to be made to save the steam trawler Rhodesia, of Grimsby, which had stranded five miles to the south of Withernsea...
The S.S. Caronilla
The No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at 8.45 A.M. on 9th November to the assistance of a steamer which had been reported ashore on the Kentish Knock Sand. The vessel proved to be the s.s.
Coronilla, of...
A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
General Index
ANNUAL REPORT . . . 33 " Life-boat Sunday " Collections . 144 Officers of the Institution . . 40 Balance Sheet . . . 48 life-boats, Descriptions of . . 116 Resolutions at Annual Meeting . 39 Box Collections . . . 146 Life-boats and...
Category: Index
Prosperity
At 3 P.M.
on the 18th February a Life-boatman observed a vessel about three and a half miles out in a dismantled condition.
There was a moderate westerly breeze blowing and the sea was heavy. The Life-boat...
Alexandra
.—At 7.15 A.M. on the 13th November the Coxswain of the Life - boat, James Stevens No. 1, sighted a dismasted vessel about three miles to the south of Port St. Mary. He immediately assembled his crew, and very promptly launched the boat. A...