LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Ives
ST. IVES, CORNWALL On the 24th October, 1945, the St. Ives life-boat rescued two persons from the ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM PETERS was awarded the silver medal..
Category: Medals
St. Ives Disaster Fund
SINCE the Mayor of St. Ives's fund for the dependents of the life-boatmen who lost their lives when the life-boat was wrecked on 23rd January last, was closed at the sum of £10,500, a gift of £1,670 9s. 7d. has come from South...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremony at St. Ives
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...
Category: Inaugurations
St. Elwine, of St. Ives
WINTERTON.—On the morning of the 25th December signals of distress were observed from a schooner ashore about 3 miles north of Winterton. The Ann Maria Life-boat was thereupon launched, and rescued the crew, 6 in number, from the vessel,...
The Problem of Launching at St. Ives
The first St. Ives life-boat was built locally and was stationed there in 1840.
In 1860 she was replaced by a pulling and sailing life-boat of the self-righting type built by the Institution, and up to 1933 the life-boats...
Category: Articles
Disaster at St. Ives. Seven Life-Boatmen Lost
THREE minutes before two in the morn- ing of 23rd January. 1939, the honorary secretary of the St. Ives life-boat station was rung up by the district officer of coastguard, who told him that a vessel was in a dangerous position two miles N.N...
Category: Services
St. Ives Memorial: The Mayor's Fund
ON 23rd April a memorial tablet to the seven men of the St. Ives crew, who lost their lives on 23rd January last, was unveiled at the St. Ives Seamen's Institution by Mr. N. A.
Beechman, M.C., M.P. for St....
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the St. Ives. Life-Boat
The Wreck of the St Ives Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
Capsizing of the St. Ives Life-Boat. Medals Awarded to Coxswain and Crew
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 30 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to March 31st, 1938 - - - - - 65,625 Capsizing of the St....
Category: Services