LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Clachnacuddin
On the 19th April, at 10 15 A.M., the barquentine Clachnacuddin, 'ofGuernsey, coal laden from Shields for Jersey, was observed in the fog, apparently stranded on the Scroby Sand. The fog liftiog a little, signals were fired by the Cockle...
Gipsy
YOUGHAL, Co. CORK.—The ketch Gipsy, of Youghal, returning from Cork, with no cargo or ballast, on the 25th March, found that with a strong head wind and an ebb tide she could not enter the harbour; she therefore ran for shelter under...
George Casson
At about noon on the llth September a vessel was observed off Southwold with a considerable list, and a signal of distress in her rigging. As a N.N.E. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the crew could be seen working hard at the pumps,...
Major A. J. Dawson
MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although...
Category: Obituaries
Lea
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 3.6 on the morning of the 26th of March, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a vessel off Sandsend had flashed an SOS signal. At 3.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
There was...
Caribia, of Delfzyl
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...
Sarah
CEMAES.—On the 14th October, information was conveyed to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a large vessel was ashore on the Middle Mouse Bocks. It was blowing a hurricane from S.W. at the time, accompanied by a very high sea. The Lifeboat...
Maid of Tire & Oxalis
On the same day the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham, stationed at Boulmer, was called out on two occasions, but the first time, when the schooner Maid of Tire, of Inverness, struck and sunk on the North Steel rocks the services of the...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Advertisement
The Boatmen of Britannia
RUN quick, ring out the Life-boat, and quick ring out the crew, No tempest that could daunt them o'er England ever blew.
Where wood upon the water can ever float and save.
The boatmen of Britannia...
Category: Poetry