LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Index to Advertisers
Bolinders Company Ltd 259 Camper & Nicholsons Ltd. 243 Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. • • 247 Classified Advertisements 3IQ Coastal Radio Ltd 247 Cogswell...
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Princess Louise
During a very strong S.W. gale, on the 26th November, signals of distress were observed from the schooner Princess Louise, of Barrow, which was at anchor about one and a half mile to the east of the harbour. The Life-boat Mary Isabella was...
Gracieuse
The weather was so bad on the night of the 6th March that a watch was kept all night and at about 6.30 next morning it was reported that a schooner off the Bull Lighthouse was steering very badly.
She was watched for some...
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.25 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1960, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Ross Corr had broken down in the mouth of Ballinskelligs Bay. At 7.50 the life-boat Peter...
Gifts from Life-Boat Crews
THE Institution has recently received gifts from four of its Crews out of sums which they themselves have received for the salving of vessels: from the Aldeburgh No. 2 crew, which saved the Norwegian whaler Chr. Crastberg, of Sandefjord, on...
Category: Donations
Birkenau
On the 18th October the German steamer Birkenau, of Bremerhaven, while bound in ballast from Antwerp to Methil, was caught in a strong northerly gale, with very heavy seas, and driven on to the rocks at Chapel Point, some miles east of...
A Fire at a Building Yard. Three Life-Boats Destroyed
ON 18th June a fire at the building yard of Messrs. Groves and Guttridge, Cowes, destroyed three motor life-boats and a quantity of the Institution's timber. The life-boats were those from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, and Selsey, Sussex,...
Category: Articles
Start, of Brixham
On the 4th Jan- uary, 1869, the trawler Start, of Brixham, was observed trying to beat to windward to obtain the shelter of Babbicombe Bay, a gale blowing at the time from the S.W., with a considerable sea. Just then she lost her mast in a...
The Folio Society Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Two Dinghies
Rowing dinghy WHILE SAILING his lift 6in Laser dinghy off Thorpe Bay Yacht Club at 1555 on Friday February 27. 1981, 16-year-old Carl Palmby saw someone on the beach waving to alert him to a casualty. He immediately headed for the position...