LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boats
WHITBY No. 1 AND UPGANG, YORK- SHIRE.—The Life-boats at these Stations •which had done duty for many years have been replaced by new boats of the modern self-righting type. The Whitby No. 1 boat is named Robert and Mary Ellis, as was her...
Category: Inaugurations
Cornish Correspondent By John Corin
Honorary secretaries of today's lifeboat stations who sometimes find themselves buried in paperwork will be interested to see how one of their predecessors of a century ago had to cope with the minutiae as well as the more important...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Smack
PORTHDINLLAEN.—At 4 P.M. on the 2nd August, during a southerly gale, a fishing smack belonging to Llanaelhaiarn had her sails carried away when ten miles from port, and was seen drifting to the N. before the storm. The Life-boat Cotton...
Good Intent
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. — On the morning of the 80th September, a vessel was seen with signals of distress about 5 miles 13. of Skegness. The crew of the Herbert Ingra,m> Life-boat were at once summoned, and the Life-boat having been...
Open Fishing-Boats
BsrDLINGTOH, YOBKSUXBB. About 10 P.M. on the loth October a gale of wind from the S. sprang up, and there being at sea five open fishing-boats, belonging to the port, which in consequence of the heavy sea could not make the harbour without...
Vanguard
CAISTER.—The fishing dandy Vanguard, of Great Yarmouth, returning to her port from the fishing grounds during a strong breeze from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea on the 19th September, went on the Barber Sand ; she got off, but afterwards...
The Smacks Triumph, Aquilon and Honour
MONTHOSE.—A heavy storm was experienced on the llth March, the wind blowing a whole gale from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, snow, and sleet. At 11.35 A.M., the No 1 Life-boat Augusta, was launched,"and was towed by the...
Fairlie and Jane
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A signal of distress having been shown by the schooner Fairlie and Jane, of Beaamaris, boned from Port Dinorwic for Kamsey, Isle of Man, with a cargo of slate, which was at anchor in Moelfre roadstead, on the 28th March,...
Countess of Caithness
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. — At about 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 26th March, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Countess of Caithness', of Gloucester, bound from Limerick to Port William, N.B., with a cargo of bones....
The S. S. Glanmire
DUNGARVAN.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 1st November the Life-boat William Dunville was launched in response to signals ofistress which were shown from the S.B.
flanmire, of Cork, with a general cargo, crew of twenty-four men, and...