LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Sir John List
DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.
A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...
Loma Novia
JANUARY 4TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.50 in the morning, a Preston Corporation lightman at Lytham telephoned that a tanker was aground. The St. Annes coastguard were informed and the naval-officer-in-charge at Fleetwood...
Phoenix 194
OCTOBER 18TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A south-westerly gale was blowing up the Bristol Channel, with the heaviest seas that had been seen for several years, when at 3.45 in the afternoon the naval officer-in-charge reported that phoenix 194 -...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 22nd August, 1935.
PAID £21,918 18s. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
Naming Ceremonies
Six new life-boats were named in 1955.
Four are in Scotland at Stornoway, Stronsay, Stromness, and Troon; two are in England at Southend-on-Sea and Fowey. An account of the Southend naming ceremony appeared in the September...
Category: Inaugurations
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Andover
GILES' QUAY (DUNDALK), Co. LOUTH.
—At about 11 o'clock on the same morning (9th February), the brigantine Andover, of Dublin, which had lost her mainsail and had become unmanageable, stranded about one mile from...
Egmont
At midnight on the llth February it was reported that a schooner, which proved to be the Egmont, of and for Cork from Cardiff with a cargo of coal, was riding with only one anchor close to " Holden's Bed." Her crew were said to...
Lily Dale
ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found...
Fishing Boats (2)
North Sunderland, and Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 10.10 on the morning of the 15th of February, 1951, several local fishing boats were seen in difficulties making for North Sun- derland harbour in a heavy swell and a light easterly...