LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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In the summer 2002 issue of the Lifeboat magazine, we included a write-up of the rescue of a sea angler who was swept into stormy seas on 2 February 2002 at Porthcawl in Wales.
To make the rescue, Helmsman Nicholas Beale...
June
MAY 31ST. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Men had been reported aboard an R.A.F. target raft, but they were cormorants which flew away as the life-boat approached. - Rewards, £8 1s.and towed her to a berth in Walton River.
She...
Category: Services
The S.S. Empire Chamois
STANDING BY 7,000-TON STEAMER Plymouth, Devon.—At 4.45 in the afternoon of the 5th of April, 1947, the Rame Head coastguard reported that a vessel needed help three miles west of Rame Head. A moderate south-south- west gale was blowing, with...
Houtman
MARCH 2ND. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At 4.30 A.M. information was received from the King’s Harbour Master that signals of distress were being shewn in Jennycliffe Bay, and the motor life-boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 5.10 A.M. A...
War on the water
On a windless Spring day off Ireland’s south coast, a magnificent steamship carrying almost 2,000 people was hit by a torpedo. It was a tragedy that would be felt around the world
The passenger...
Category: Articles
Falmouth: When the 50' Thames Class Lifeboat Rotary Service Was Lifted Out of the Water on July 29 1975 for Cleaning Off Anti-Fouling and the Replacing of All Cathodic Prot
Falmouth: When the 50' Thames class lifeboat Rotary Service was lifted out of the water on July 29, 1975, for cleaning off, anti-fouling and the replacing of all cathodic protection anodes, all the work was done free of charge, Falmouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (5)
SEPT. 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A vessel had been reported with a bad list, which was thought to be the result of enemy action, and the life-boat put out in charge of the bowman, as both the coxswain and second coxswain were at sea fishing, but...
The Life-Boat
TtrE day is spent ; the ied sun sinks Beneath the Western wave; The light bark gaily holds her course With her crew so stout and brave.
A few short hours, and all is changed; For loudly howls the Wast, And o'er the...
Category: Poetry
Francis of Shields
On the 25th October, the brigantine Francis, of Shields, was totally wrecked, and afterwards sunk on the Cockle Sands during a strong W.N.W. wind, and in a heavy sea. The Mark Lane life-boat went out and brought safely ashore the...
Bostonian VII
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 9.20 on the night of the 12th of August, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen four and a half miles south-east-by-east of Shoreham Harbour. At 9.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and-Phyllis...