LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Panama Transport
At 7 A.M. on the 17th February a telephone message was received from Port Wrinkle stating that a large steamer was at anchor six and a half miles off the shore and flying signals of distress. A strong S.S.W. gale was blowing and the Life-...
The S.S. Northumbria
The s.s. North- umbria, of London, broke down when in the vicinity of Withernsea on the 2nd November, and in response to a message reporting that a vessel was in distress the Hornsea Life-boat Helen and Mar- garet was launched. When the Life...
Temperance Pledge
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—While a strong breeze was blowing from N.W. by W., increasing to a gale and accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 18th January, the coxswain of the Life-boat, who was watching, observed the side-lights of a vessel on the...
Hjertness
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN. — Shortly after 9 A.M. the Coastguard reported that a barque about a mileN-W. of Copeland Islands was signalling for "immediate assistance." The Coxswain assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat Chapman....
Drake
Whilst the new Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was being navigated from Liverpool to her station on the 27th June by a party of New Brighton Life-boatmen, the attention of the Coxswain was drawn by a passing dredger to a small yacht, which...
A Steamer
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.
'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour,...
George Casson
At about noon on the llth September a vessel was observed off Southwold with a considerable list, and a signal of distress in her rigging. As a N.N.E. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the crew could be seen working hard at the pumps,...
Nancy
At 7.40 P.M.
on the llth November, a message was received from the Yarmouth Coast Guard stating that a vessel was burning flares off Yarmouth Pier, and that the Yarmouth Life-boat was unable to launch. The Coxswain of the...
Cormorant
FRENCH FISHING BOAT IN PERIL St. Helier, Jersey.—At 8.10 in the evening of the 16th of September, 1947, a message was received from the har- bour office that two men had rowed ashore at La Rocque from the fishing boat Cormorant, of Dinan,...
Ruby
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. —• At 8.10 in the evening on the 19th of May, 1949, the coastguard reported that men had been seen waving from a small boat about five miles north by east of Peter- head, and the life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...