LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Man
LIKE the he . t of a woman (pathetic and tender), Tet stalwart and strong, with a soul ever true: Alert with pure courage his service to render— These are the men in the jerseys of blue.
For whenever the storm with its...
Category: Poetry
Peep o ' Day, of Wrexford
On the morning of the 21st April the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition. The lugger Peep o'Day, of Wexford, was totally wrecked on the north end of the Dogger Bank, during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. The...
The Sunbeam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9 o'clock in the evening of the 1st of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor vessel broken down off Saltdean, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 9.5 in calm...
Isle of Wight Fete
ON 18th and 19th June the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the Isle of Wight held an "All-Island Life-boat Fete" in the Nelson Hall at East Cowes.
The Hon. Mabel Gough-Calthorpe, the Hon. Secretary of the Guild, was...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, honorary sec- retary of the Cobham branch, who runs a stamp club for the Institution, will be very glad to receive jubilee stamps issued by the Dominions and Colonies, especially the higher-priced ones, whether used or...
Category: Articles
The Aberdeen Trawler Evergreen
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire On the 18th January the Aberdeen trawler Evergreen was wrecked at Rosehearty.
The motor life-boat Lady Rothes rescued the crew of nine.—Rewards, bronze medal, and an increase in the usual money...
The S.S. Co-operator
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 3 P.M. on the 9th January, during a whole W.N.W.
gale, with a very rough sea, the s.s.
Co-operator, of Fenit, broke her moorings.
She drifted towards dangerous rocks...
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Taurus
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 10.58 a.m. on 2ist July, 1966, a small boat three miles north east of Whitby buoy was requesting assistance. At 11.10 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched in a strong northerly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
Dee Jay
Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...
The French Dandy Henri et Helene
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.-—At 8 A.M. on the 17th April, blowing hard from E.N.E., in consequence of signals of distress from the French dandy Henri et Helene, of Nantes, the Life-boat Covent Garden went out of the river and placed a pilot and 2...