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.<...
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 Record Month by Month
Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by 1945 Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore-boats Rescueto Save boats January . . 63 100 6 4 - February . . 53 22 6 5 - March . . 43...
Category: Annual Reports
At Aldeburgh (Suffolk) on the Same Day
At Aldeburgh (Suffolk) on the Same Day The Motor Life-Boat Putting Out To The Help of the Foundering Steamer Culmore. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Iron Ore Ship Beltana
Penlee, Cornwall - At 8 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the life-boat would be needed at 7 a.m. on 25th August to land a sick man from a Norwegian motor vessel. At 6.45 the life-boat Solomon...
Fishing Trip on the Rocks
Fishing trip on the rocks Anstruther - Scotland South Division A Glenrothes man's fishing trip ended on the rocks on 24 July, 1988 when engine failure on his 25ft cruiser Wave Dancer caused the boat to drift on to rocks by a nearby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
From the Canadian Red Cross
The Institution has received a cheque for £55.18.6. from the Canadian ReU Cross Society, which has decided to make a monthly subscription of this amount "in recognition of the great war work done by the Institution from which we...
Category: Articles
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,...