LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

oar'd 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 seemed...

THE little cliff-side village In sleepy stillness lay, When the fishers' boats, at daybreak, Set sail from Bunswick Bay.

" God keep our sons and husbands, And bring them safely home I " Was the prayer that...

AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...

New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.

—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...

Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...

THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...

ON the night of the 25th of October, 1949, a whole northerly gale was blow- ing at Holyhead with violent squalls at forty and fifty miles an hour. The sea was very rough; the night dark with heavy squalls of rain.

A small...

ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.

Ex-Coxswain...