LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hitena, of St Johns
On the 28th De- cember the brigantine Hitena, of St. Johns, Newfoundland, was observed off Worthing with signals of distress in her rigging. A gale was blowing from the S.W., and there was a heavy sea on. The Jane life-boat was soon manned...
Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
Category: Services
The S.S. St. Patrick
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. — During the morning of the 28th February the Great Western Railway local marine superintendent asked if the motor lifeboat White Star would place a crew on board the railway's s.s. St. Patrick, which was lying...
St. Gerard, of Arklow
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—A fishing boat was noticed at anchor three miles north of the pier on the 8th and 9th of December, 1949, and by the afternoon of the 10th she had not moved. As the weather had worsened, and the father...
St. Helier Naming Ceremony
THE new St. Helier life-boat arrived at her station on the llth of September, 1948, and on the 14th of October her naming ceremony was held on a sunny afternoon after a morning of storm.
The station was established in 1884,...
Category: Inaugurations
St. Gowan Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 11.35 on the morning of the 22nd of March, 1956, the Superintendent of Trinity House at Swansea asked if the life- boat would land a sick man from the St. Gowan lightvessel. At 11.50 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown...
The S.S. St. Walburg
Eastbourne, and Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 4th of Nov- ember, 1952, the Eastbourne coastguard telephoned the Eastbourne life-boat station that the S.S. St. Walburg, of Groningen, which was about one mile south of...
St Michael, of Harve
On the 18th September, the brig St. Michael, of Havre, was observed to anchor on the Crusader Sandbank, the tide being high at the time.
The wind was blowing very strong from W.S.W., with a high sea on. The Black- pool new...
Commander St. Vincent Nepean
WE greatly regret to have to record the death of Commander St. Vincent Nepean, R.N., M.V.O., which took place on the 28th March. Commander Nepean joined the Institution as a District Inspector of Life-boats in 1883 and became, successively,...
Category: Obituaries
L'Etoile, of St Malo
The brig L'Etoile, of St. Malo, from Oette, bound to Riga, laden with salt, got on the rocks a little to the east- ward of Sudmore, at 9'30 P.M., on the 3rd of May. The night was intensely dark, a fresh gale blowing from the S.W.,...