LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Water Lily
MARCH 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after 5 p.m. the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Water Lily, which could be seen about three miles north of Margate pier, appeared to be in trouble with her engine, and the motor life-boat The...
Grapple with gremlins
On 17 September, the trawler Dorothy May ran out of fuel, having been using it at a faster rate than usual.
A further fault meant that her battery hadn’t charged and she lost electrical power, rendering her radio useless....
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (57)
JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.
The sea...
Letters
Seafarers all Kindly accept this 'widow's mite' in aid of your good service. I lost two brothers at sea and three uncles and my great grandfather served under Lord Nelson as a commander.
1 admire the bravery of...
Category: Correspondence
The Best Essay
By DENIS BUTLER (aged 14J), of Stamshaw Boys' School, Stamshaw, Portsmouth.
Why I admire the Life-boatman.
WHEN we consider the higher qualities with which men are endowed, we find that we admire...
Category: Articles
"The Old Cork Buoy."
THE night was dark, the tempest roared, The waves ran mountains high: It seemed to every hand on board As if the sea and sky In one commingled mass was blent And welded by the gale, Save where the quiv'ring light'niag rent The...
Category: Poetry
Britannia
— On the morning of the 29th December, as the local motor fishing coble Britannia was at sea, and a very heavy ground swell was breaking across the mouth of the haven, making entry difficult and dangerous, it was decided to send out the...
Herring Boats
Early on the morning of the 17th January several local herring boats put off to fish in the bay. Later heavy S.W.
squalls sprang up, with a rough sea and rain. It was reported that some of the boats were in danger, and the...
Kestrel
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — At 9.59 on the night of the 16th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat, with a rope round her propeller, was burning oily rags half a mile off Corton beach. The motor life-boat Mary Scott, on...
Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The life- boat Frederick and Emma was launched at one o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th of March, 1949, in a north- westerly gale with a heavy sea, to the help of the local fishing boat Ocean Vanguard, which was...