LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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...

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the RNLI this year was split into morning and afternoon sessions at the Royal Festival Hall, London, the first being for the governors and the second for the presentation of medals for gallantry and awards to voluntary...

Jan. 4.—Five fishermen put off in a coble from Staithes, Yorkshire, and assisted other cobles which, had been overtaken by a very thick fog and a heavy sea.—Reward, 11. 5s.

Jan. 10.—Three men, while fishing off Beadnell,...

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THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...

During a heavy gale from E.N.E. on the 20th March, the schooner Frances Ann, of Goole, anchored off this place. Soon afterwards the master, find- ing the vessel had sprung a leak and that her pumps were choked, slipped the cable and made for...

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TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...

AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...