LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Galaxy
"RADIO LONDON" CAPTAIN ILL At 9.55 a.m. on 20th August, 1965,11 was learnt that a message had been received from the Harwich agents of the M.V.
Galaxy, the transmitting station known as Radio London, saying the...
A Boat
MARCH 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 5 P.M. an army officer and two non-commissioned officers launched an old boat, intending to punt in shallow water. They had not allowed for the strong ebbing tide and a fresh S.E...
A British Aeroplane (3)
JUNE 9TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. At 3.3 P.M. the coastguard reported that a British aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Reighton Gap, and at 3.20 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched. The weather was foggy, with a light easterly...
The Admiralty Drifter No. 634
JANUARY 10TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel firing lights and signalling SOS at the entrance to Wells harbour. A strong north-by-west wind was blowing with a heavy swell...
A Motor Launch (1)
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
At two in the morning the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a motor launch was ashore in Hoy Sound one hundred yards north-east of Ness Beacon and in need of help.
A...
Sister Pat
FEB. 17TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 11 A.M. the motor boat Sister Pat, belonging to Fleetwood, with two men on board, was seen by the second cox-swain of the life-boat to be making distress signals. She was being driven...
True Vine
APRIL 2ND. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.56 P.M. the Collieston coastguard reported that a fishing vessel was showing distress signals, south of the River Ythan, and the motor life-boat John Ryburn was launched at 7.30 P...
A Landing Craft (1)
JULY 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 1.55 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a landing craft had broken down six miles south-south west of Shoreham Harbour.
A strong south-west wind was...
The Life-Boat
" MAN the life-boat!" Thus the voices hoarsely sounding through the night Rouse to action those who, fearless, brave the elements to fight.
Fight for what? For home? For beauty? Riches ? Rank ? The warrior's...
Category: Poetry
The Fishing Steamers Salamander and Queenborough
FENIT (TRALEE BAY), Co. K«BBY.—The Life-boat John Willmot was launched at 1 P.M. on the 19th April and proceeded to the fishing steamer Salamander which had stranded on a dangerous reef of rocks in Brandon Bay in a dense...