LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dolphin
Margate, Kent.—At 1.5 in the after- noon of the 5th of June, 1949, the coastguard telephoned information re- ceived from Herne Bay that a motoryacht was ashore on the Hook Sand- bank flying a distress signal, and the life-boat Lord...
Zippalong
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 10.25 on the morning of the 1st of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Holdernidd had wirelessed that she was towing the motor yacht Zippalong, of Boston, and was making for Cromer. She asked if the life...
Matelot
Dover, Kent.—At 6.27 on the evening of the 1st of August, 1953, the Sand- gate coastguard rang up to say a yacht had burnt a red flare one and a half miles east of Folkestone pier and was making for Dover. At 6.44 the life- boat The Lord...
Alf Everard and the S.S. Sir Alexander Kennedy
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.39 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a steamer had wirelessed that another steamer had collided with the motor vessel Alf Everard, of London, off Sea Reach. At 6.55...
Whitby Lass and Foxglove
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.16 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954,the coastguard telephoned that a fish- ing boat appeared to be in difficulties one mile north-west of the harbour.
At 11.25 the No. 1 life-boat Mary...
The Life-Boat
LOUD beat the treacherous breakers on the shore; The boiling waves like mountains rise on high, Seeming to vent their wild, tumultuous roar To the dark pall that erstwhile was the sky.
The billows,...
Category: Poetry
The S.S Torbryan
During a thick fog on the 24th July, the s.s. Torbryan, of Glasgow, stranded on the rocks at Dodds Well, about 1 i miles north of Berwick Harbour, at 1.30 P.M. The life-saving apparatus went to her assistance and stood by in readiness, but...
A Vessel
At 3.30 A.M., on the 5th October, during a strong north- westerly gale and a very heavy sea, the Coastguardobservedavessel ashore about half a mile to the north of Palling. He reported the matter to the Coxswain, who at once summoned the...
Lily
At 5.30 A.M.
on the 20th February, during a N.N. W.
gale, with snow-squalls and a very heavy sea, the Coxswains and Coastguard observed a vessel in distress about half a mile south of Palling. The crew and...
Two Salmon Cobles
At 3.45 P.M. on the 8th April information was received that two salmon cobles were in great danger owing to the wind having shifted from W. to N., and increased to a hurricane, causing the sea to break right over them. The No. 1 Life-boat,...