LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
To Rescue Drowning Persons
WE are gratified in being able to make public the following instructions for the guidance of those who being themselves able to swim, may have opportunity to go to the aid of their drowning fellow creatures.
The writer of...
Category: Correspondence
Spanish Awards: Presentations at Ilfracombe
AT the annual meeting, the Duke of San Lucar la Mayor, the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, announced the awards which the Spanish Life-boat Society had made for the rescue of 23 lives from the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu in the Bristol...
Category: Awards
Boree
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
S.S. Lieutenant Robert Mory
JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.
the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
An Aeroplane (37)
OCTOBER 21ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. About 1.15 in the morning the coastguard sent a message to the coxswain that an aeroplane wasin distress, burning red flares, off Dulas Island, some three miles to the west.
The coxswain...
Annie Scot, of Arbroath
On the 30th November, the barque Annie Scott, of Arbroath, was stranded during a strong wind and hazy weather on the Cross Sand, off the Norfolk coast. The same life-boat went off and succeeded in saving the vessel's crew of 9 men. They...
The S.S. Eider
— During a strong northerly gale on the 17th July, a telegram was received from the Coast- j guard reporting that a vessel was in distress one and a half miles to the north of Flamborough Head. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat MattJieio...