LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
ANSTRUTHER, FIFBSHIEE.—The Lifeboat Royal Stuart was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 1st March, and remained afloat until several fishing-boats, which had been overtaken by a whole gale from S.E. and a very heavy sea, had safely entered the...
Patriotic Life-Boat Song
THE ocean lies in peaceful sleep, Its waters murmuring low, The tumult of the waves is gone, And Boreas presses slow.
The sky now frowns and grim the arch That spans the watery way, The sea full rises in revolt And joins in...
Category: Songs
A Small Auxiliary Yacht Edith
On the night of 25th May the Honorary Secretary received a telephone message from the Coastguard at Hope Cove that the small auxiliary yacht Edith, belong- ing to Bigbury-on-Sea, was disabled and drifting about five miles off Salcombe, with...
None (1)
30th October.
A man was believed to have fallen over the cliffs at Birsay, and the Life-boat helped in the search but nothing was found.—Rewards, £11 5s. 6d..
Pauline
On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become...
Help from Overseas
THE honorary secretary of the Bexhill- on-Sea branch recently sent out a personal appeal to his own friends.
The result was nearly £21, and subscrip- tions came to him from as far afield as Switzerland, India and...
Category: Donations
Quite Natural
The sea is one of the forces of Nature. So also, it seems, to a sea faring people, is the life-boat service.
A letter has been received addressed to " Royal Natural Life-boat Institu- tion.".
Category: Articles
Braywick
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—About 8.40 on the morning of the 8th of January.
1953, the motor vessel Braywick, of London, which had a crew of nine, wirelessed that she had broken down and needed a tug three miles north- east...
May Lily
Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 7.16 on the morning of the 17th ofApril, 1951, a fisherman telephoned the Filey life-boat authorities that he had picked up a message on his wireless set: the fishing boat May Lily, of Scar-...
A Yacht
16th June. A yacht capsized during a race, but another yacht picked up the crew. Mr.
David Plunket put off from the shore in a motor boat and quickly brought the rescued men ashore. A letter of thanks was sent to...