LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rosa Luxemburg
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 7.5 on the evening of the 12th of November, 1959, the lighthouse keeper at South Gare informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was anchored very close to the West Scar rocks. At 7.20 the life-boat John and Lucy...
National Service for Seafarers St.Paul's Cathedral
EACH YEAR since 1905, except in wartime, the annual National Service for Seafarers has been held in St Paul's Cathedral, in the City of London, to celebrate the unity of calling of all those who use the sea. At the 1981 service, held on...
Category: Articles
The Phoenix Was Inflatable By Joan Davies
UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Stood by in storm ON SATURDAY December 15, 1979, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Padstow lifeboat station that a vessel three miles north west of Trevose Head had transmitted a mayday distress signal...
Category: Services
Oft-Spoken Stories
CALM is the ocean ; fair is the sky; Vessels are passing silently by; Sunbeams are gilding the waves with their glory; Peaceful the scene! 'Tis an oft-spoken story.
Foaming and breaking close to our feet, On the dark...
Category: Poetry
A Steamer (2)
31st October. A steamer had stranded near the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, but she floated off again.—Rewards, £26 4*. 6d..
Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries
Heron
Margate, Kent. — At 12.4 in the afternoon of the 15th of June, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that three men were waving for help in a broken down motor boat near the rocks at Birchington. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...
Life-Boatman Wades 150 Yards Through Surf
At 10.23 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1952, the Margate coastguard reported that a small yacht was ashore on Margate sands about three miles north of the harbour. She had a heavy list and seas were breaking over her. The life-boat...
Category: Services
The Panamanian Steamer Buccaneer and Tanker Johannishus.
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.26 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a wireless message had been intercepted from the Panamanian steamer Buccaneer that she had caught fire after being' in collision with the...