LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...
A Boat (8)
SEPT. 4TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
A small boat out fishing had been kept under observation and, as the wind increased, the life-boat was launched at 9.20 P.M., but in the darkness failed to find the boat, which got in...
A Fishing Boat (6)
Nov. 23RD. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported ashore on West Hoyle Bank, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board. Her crew of three had already been rescued.- Rewards, £9 16s....
A Fishing Boat
JANUARY 26TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
A fishing boat, making for Rye from Hastings, had had trouble with her engine, but her crew beached her east of Rye Harbour.- Rewards, £66 0s. 6d..
A Naval Motor Boat
JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
A naval motor boat had been reported missing, but the life-boat was recalled when it was learned that the motor boat had reached Bude. - Rewards, £24 6s..
A Fishing Boat (9)
NOVEMBER 21ST. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was found ashore above high water mark with her crew safe. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £3 1s. 6d..
A Ship’s Boat
JUNE 13TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A drifting ship’s boat had been reported eighty-four miles west of Greenhead, Isle of Barra, but nothing was found.
Rewards, £18 14s..
None (4)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Cestrian, of Chester
On the 31st of August, the schooner Cestrian, of Chester, in running for Newhaven harbour, grounded on the bar, when the Institution's life-boat stationed there was launched, and proceeded to her aid. An attempt was at first made to save...
The Necessity of a Standard for Ships' Life-Boats
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" IN the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, which, conjointly with the Passengers' Act of 1852, now constitutes the whole law as re- gards all...
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