LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alnwick
RAMSGATE.—The schooner Alnwick, of Beaumaris, bound from London for Workington with cement, ran for the harbour from the Downs for shelter while a strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, on the evening of the 5th October, but missed the entrance and...
Annie
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. — At about 5.10 P.M., on the 17th June, the Coastguard reported that a vessel about four miles N. of Towan Head was in need of assistance. A strong breeze from N. was then blowing, the sea was moderate and the weather...
Camperdown
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.—The fishing- boat Camperdown, of Port Knockie, was returning from the fishing grounds on the evening of the 6th February, when a hurricane from W.S.W. suddenly rose and disabled her, breaking the yard and splitting...
The Shipwreck
THE crash of timbers and the rasp of rock, ; The mocking tongue of Death in frenzy wags The stricken ship—mere plaything of the Beneath its ghostly, ghastly, fleshless lip.
gale- Lies helpless, while the cruel...
Category: Poetry
Annie
About 2 p M., on the 8th February, the pilot coble Annie, of Redcar, which had gone out in the morning to a steamer, but had failed to reach her on account of the strong N.W. gale and heavy sea, was seen off Redcar, beyond the breakers, with...
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
Pilot Me
Information was given to the Life-boat Coxswain shortly before 1 o'clock on the afternoon of 29th February that the motor fishing boat Pilot Me had broken down about three miles N.N.W. of Whitby. A strong N.E. to E. breeze was blowing,...
Redwing
At about 7.30 P.M.
on the 2nd September the fishing boat Redwing, of Poole, was seen to be in difficulties three miles E.N.E. from Peveril Point in a moderate S.S.W. gale with a moderately heavy sea. The Motor Life-boat...
An Aeroplane
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Princess Charming
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her...