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The S.S. Gorm

Date: February 1879

Volume: 10

Issue: 111

LOWESTOFT.—On the 10th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were seen from a vessel on the Holm Sand.

The No. 1 Life-boat Samuel Plimsoll was launched, and on reaching the sand found the s.s. Gorm, of Copenhagen,...

The Dutch S.S. Prinses Juliana

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

JANUARY 18TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. The Dutch S.S. Prinses Juliana, of Flushing, had been reported in difficulties near the shore, but she was found not to be in need of help. - Rewards, £4 17s. 6d..

The S.S. Baron

Date: April 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 349

Walmer, Kent.—In the morning of the 2nd of January, 1949, a strong south-westerly gale was blowing, and at 9.30 the agents for the S.S. Baron, which was in the Downs, reported that she was in urgent need of food and asked the life-boat to...

The S.S. Olefoss

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

New Brighton, Cheshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 20th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel appeared to have broken away from two tugs which had been towing her. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett...

Georg, of Kiel

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

AUGUST 6TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.

The motor tanker Georg, of Kiel, had been forced by bad weather and trouble with her engine to leave a convoy and seek shelter, but she was able to repair the engine and go on her way....

The Hythe Motor Life-Boat

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

The Hythe Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend-On-Sea

Date: February 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 321

death the Institution greatly regrets is Mr. Frederick Britain, of Southend- on-Sea, who died on 1st January at the age of sixty-eight. For eighteen years he was the honorary secretary of the station. He was appointed in 1914, and retired in...

Category: Obituaries

Wimpie and the Barges Glenrosa, Maid of Munster and Audrey (1)

Date: October 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 335

Southend-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On 2nd June, 1938, in a whole gale the Southend-on-Sea motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3), rescued two men from the yacht Wimpie, of Southampton, and three men from the barge...

The S.S. Attiki

Date: February 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 211

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—In response to signals of distress shortly after 10 P.M. on the 27th April the Life-boat Hubert and Susan went to the assistance of the s.s. Attiki, of Andros, Greece, which ran on to the rocks at Newbiggin Church...

Annual Meeting

Date: September 1919

Volume: 23

Issue: 267

THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.

the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...

Category: Meetings