LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat: An Appeal
WHEN the wrath of the tempest bursts over the deep, And the woe-laden winds from their fastnesses sweep, And revel and shriek in their terrible glee, As they whirl o'er the breast of the pitiless sea: When the foam-crested billows surge...
Category: Poetry
The Faroese Fishing Smack Else
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 7.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1961, a message was received that a vessel was on fire off Duncansby Head. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a slight sea, and it was almost low water. At eight...
The Admiralty Trawler Their Merit
JANUARY 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 12.25 P.M. the port war signal station reported that the Admiralty trawler Their Merit was aground on the North Beach just north of the harbour entrance, and a tug went out.<...
Feature Building Into the Millennium
RNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings takes his coastal voyage from Fishguard to SillothThe first half of 2001 was one of the busiest periods ever for the RNLI shoreworks team. Before setting sail northwards from Fishguard, a quick fook...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Maggie
— Several motor fishing boats and cobles put out early on the 2nd November, but were caught in a strong N.N.W. gale, with a very heavy sea. All except the motor fishing coble Our Maggie returned to harbour, and the motor life-boat Herbert...
The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Night on the Goodwin Sands
BY THE REV. J. GILMORE, M.A.* CHAPTER 1.
THE GOODWIN SANDS.
" GOD have mercy upon the poor fellows at sea!" Household words, these, in English homes, however far inland they may be, and...
Category: Articles
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
The Tender Sybella (M.F.V. 1564)
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the Ports- mouth naval authorities had reported that the fleet tender Sybella (M.F.V.
1564) had gone aground east of Beachy...
The Motor Dinghy Good Intent
Padstow, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the evening of the 16th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy lying betweenPentire Head and the Meols had fired a red flare. At 8.20, one hour before high water,...