LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Walrus Aeroplane
JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...
Modwena and Sandpiper
AUGUST 28TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.20 in the afternoon information was received that two yachts were in danger of being driven on to the sea wall at Canvey Island. A fresh south-south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
An Aeroplane (166)
NOVEMBER 23RD. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At 1.15 P.M. the Portpatrick coastguard reported that fire and smoke had been seen some miles S.S.W. of Ravenshall Point, and fifteen minutes later the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported...
Madeline Rickmers (2)
RAMSGATE,NORTH DEAL AND WALMER In response to signals fired by the North Sand Head and Gull Light-vessels, the Life-boats Bradford, of Ramsgate, Mary Sommerville, stationed at North Deal, and Civil Service No. 4, of Walmer, were launched on...
The S.S. Mangalore
NOV. 24TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At about 9.5 A.M . a very loud explosion was heard in the direction of the Lower Middle Buoy. A vessel. apparently on fire, was seen, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was...
A Large Brig
The Ramsgate life-boat has been so frequently off to the Goodwin Sands, towed by the harbour tug, in reply to night signals of distress from the floating light-vessels moored off those fatal shoals, that we cannot attempt to describe...
A Surfboard
Lone surfer saved in_near gale Eastbourne's D class inflatable saved the life of a surfer on 21 June 1997 in conditions which swamped the lifeboat when launching, threw a crew member overboard and needed the all-weather lifeboat to...
The Shipwreck
A shattered bark, and an angry sky, And the storm-wraith shrieking fierce and high, And, aye and anon, from the murky cloud, The thunder echoing hoarse and loud ! Oh! little ship, that at dawn of day Didst gaily sail from thy native bay,...
Category: Poetry
Edith and Margaret Ann
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...
Edith and Margaret Ann (1)
Bridlington, and Flamborough, York- shire. At 5.20 on the evening of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard at Flamborough passed on to the honorary secretaries of the life-boat stations at Bridlington and Flam- borough a report from the...