LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newhaven, we have a problem
6 November: A former astronaut got into difficulties when his eco-friendly schooner experienced fuel contamination in choppy conditions. Newhaven’s all-weather Severn class lifeboat was on scene within half an...
Category: Articles
Feathered friend
28 January: Littlehampton Crew Member Jon Maidment is pictured with ‘Sammy’ the swan. The crew found Sammy bleeding and in distress with fishing line lodged in his throat, picked him up (but not without some...
Category: Articles
"The Blessing of Him That Was Ready to Perish Came Upon Me."
THE LIFE-BOAT.
Hark! an awful tempest Breaks upon the night.
Winds and waves are roaring: 'TSs a fearful sight! See the noble vessel, Wrecked upon the deep.
Many a heart is failing...
Category: Poetry
A Fishing Boat (4)
JULY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABER-DEENSHIRE. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but her crew were landed by a motor boat. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d.
(See Whinnyfold, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 99.).
An Aeroplane (142)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CROMARTY. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the life-boat was overtaken by an R.A.F. speed boat, and returned to her station.- Rewards, £4 7s. 6d.
(See Brora, “ Services by...
Gem and Tut (1)
ENGLISH AND DANISH FISHING BOATS IN DISTRESS Runswick, and Whitby, Yorkshire.—At half-past one in the afternoon of the 17th of December, 1947, information was telephoned from Whitby to Runs- wick that the fishing boat Gem, belong- ing...
Faith, Glynn, Seaview, Queen of The West, Maria Reid,Edith Ma
During a moderate easterly gale on the 31st October, several vessels which were at anchor off Rosslare Harbour got into a dangerous position owing to their anchors not holding. Seeing they were in danger, Coxswain Hayes launched the...
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Economy and Willing Boys
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1957, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat which had engine trouble was sheltering near Reiss Sands and that a motor fishing vessel was stand- ing by. At 3.8...