LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Eileen Summer
Caister, Norfolk. Because of de- teriorating weather conditions on the night of the 17th of May, 1959, anxiety was felt for two fishing boats which had not returned to harbour, and the life-boat Jose Neville was launched at 11.55. It was low...
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
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MATERNITY CASE At 6.40 a.m. on 23rd September, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a maternity patient to send to hospital and as he could not obtain another suitable boat he asked for the life-boat. At 7.30...
Blacktail
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 9.30 on the night of the 9th Decem- ber, 1961, the coxswain received a message from a director of the Boston Sea Fishing Company that the skipper of their trawler Blacktail had...
Bow Wow Wow
Poppy the Springer Spaniel had a lucky escape on Valentine’s Day after chasing a seagull and falling 90m down a cliff into the sea.
Amazingly, she survived and managed to swim back to huddle at the cliff base. Newhaven’s...
Category: Articles
Richard and Francis
LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen N.E. of the Newcome Sands, during a strong N.W. wind and a rough sea, on the night-of the 25th November, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah went out at 10 o'clock, and found the sloop Richard and...
Widgeon
Ansrruther, Fifeshire. At 4.7 on the afternoon of the 6th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a cabin cruiser was firing red flares off the North Carr lightvessel.
A strong...
A Boat
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 7.5 on the evening of the 28th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with two people on board had been seen burning flares about a mile south of Arnish...
An Aeroplane (25)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
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St. Ives, Cornwall. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two youths had been trapped by the rising tide at Fisher- man's Cove. A cliff rescue team had gone to...