LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Autumn
WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE. — A message having been received by telephone from the Gunfleet light-house on the 7th February, the crew of the Life-boat Honourable Artillery Company were summoned, and at 3.45 A.M. the boat was launched. She proceeded...
Reserve Fleets of Life-Boats
IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...
Category: Articles
George R. Purdy, of North Shields
AT 4.30 in the afternoon of April 28th a steamer's whistle was heard at Newbiggin, blowing from a position north of Church Point. There was a dense fog.
A moderate breeze was blowing from E.S.E., but the sea was very...
The S.S. Clyde
A telephone message was received at 9.30 P.M. on I the 10th December, reporting that a vessel was driving ashore and was in want of assistance. The rocket appa- ratus was despatched and the Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched. On arrival...
Sky Lark and Fisher Lassie
During the night of the 31st July the Coastguard at Knab saw flares being burnt by a vessel in the South entrance. She was evidently drifting seaward. The Life-boat Station was warned, and the Motor Life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
The Motor Drifter Bezaleel
At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.
breeze was blowing with a heavy...
Millom Castle
Plymouth, Devon.—The Motor Life- boat Robert and Marcella Beck was launched at 9.5 P.M. on the 27th October to the help of the ketch Millom Castle, of Plymouth. A strong W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy and confused sea, and the...
St Leonard
On the evening of the 24th June the coxswain was informed that a motor cruiser was in difficulties with her engine broken down, about sixteen miles south of Brid- lington. Some time later the Withern- sea coastguard telephoned that the...
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
Mary
On the afternoon of the 21st May the motor boat May Belle got into difficulties oft Littlestone.
Her engine had broken down, and she began to drift. She was making her first trip with her owner and five other men on board....