LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier and Pride
OCT. 31ST. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
A strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Two local fishing boats Premier and Pride were out, and anxiety was felt for their safety. The lifeboat crew and helpers assembled...
Pioneer
JAN. 2ND. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning it was reported that one of the local motor fishing cobles was at sea. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and squalls of sleet. The motor life-boat...
Money for old clothes
Look out for RNLI textile collection bags coming through UK letterboxes this Summer. Fill them up with your unwanted clothes and Local Community Recycling Services Ltd will recycle them on our behalf.
A 5-month pilot and a...
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JUNE 26TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening a local doctor asked for the services of the life-boat to take a woman who was seriously ill with appendicitis to Oban for an operation. As no other boat would be available until the...
Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward
NOVEMBER 4TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
The local fishing cobles Joan and Mary, Dorothy Rose, and Matthew and Edward had gone out in bad weather, and by 11.45 A.M.
it had got so much worse, with a fresh N.E....
The Austrian Barque Mea
Early in the morn- ing of the 29th November, while it was blowing a moderate gale from S.S.E., the Austrian barque Mea was observed at anchor, in a. dangerous position, in Tramore Bay, on the Irish coast, with a steam-tug near her. The...
June Kilgour
The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
Eureka
EASTBOURNE.—The barge Eureka, Rochester, laden with linseed cake and oats, hoisted a signal of distress while riding at anchor in the offing in a strong 3. wind and thick weather, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the morning of the 8th July....
Bradford's Life-Boat Matinee
THE twenty-seventh Annual Life-boat Matinee, organized by Mr. Francis Laid- ler, took place on 10th November last.
The programme included some twenty " turns," among those who took part being the principal...
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The S.S. Benwick
SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.—In thick weather, a strong S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 4th February, a large steamer—the s.s. Benwick, of Newcastle —stranded on the " Runnel Stone" and subsequently became a total wreck. It was soon...