LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heemskirk
APRIL 15TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Just after midnight on the 14th April the coastguard reported a vessel to the N.E. by E. of Britannia Pier, which was not showing distress signals but which appeared to be ashore on Scroby...
The British-Manned Liberty Ship Samnethy
DECEMBER 7TH - 10TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 in the morning, the naval base at Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should launch to the British-manned Liberty ship Samnethy, which had...
The Life-Boat
Wildly roared the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead; Helpless, in that hour of danger, On—the gallant vessel sped.
Sails were riven, masts were broken, By the tempest's fearful power ; Fruitless...
Category: Poetry
Man the Life-Boat!
" Man the Life-boat!" Listen, brother, How the signal cleaves the air, Chilling heart of wife or mother With a feeling nigh despair; "Man the Life-boat 1" and the thunder Seems to echo back the cry; "Dare they...
Category: Poetry
Weather Reports and Forecasts In the Daily Newspapers
By Rear-Admiral Fitz-Roy, F.R.S.
INFORMATION about the weather, or respecting instruments available for popular use, as indicators of changes in our ever-varying atmosphere, has been extensively diffused daring late years,...
Category: Articles
April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
Category: Services
The Danish Motor Vessel Baradrangur
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH FEBRUARY 8TH. - FRASER-BURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. In the night the Danish motor vessel Baradrangur, of Trangisvoag, with a crew of five, went ashore on the sandsto the south of Fraserburgh. Very heavy seas were...
Shamrock
At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (2)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Three Fine Services By the Humber Life-Boat. 102 Lives Rescued In Five Weeks
IN the course of five weeks of the war, from 10th October to 14th November, 1939, the motor life-boat at the Humber was out on service ten times and rescued 102 lives. For three of these services Coxswain Robert Cross was awarded a clasp to...
Category: Services