LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services
Margaret Davis, of Girvan
On the 26th October, the smack Margaret Davis, of Girvan, was totally wrecked on a reef of boulder-stones, a short distance south of the harbour of that place, during a gale of wind. The crew expected to get her off, but the gale increas-...
The S.S. Else Skou
Hastings, Sussex. At 10.55 on the morning of the 16th of February, 1958, the Fairlight coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that a vessel was in diffi- culties off Bexhill. The life-boat M.T.C.
was launched at 11.3 in a...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—continued
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.
" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...
Category: Articles
Astrea, of Konigsburg
On the 16th October, the schooner Astrea, of Konigsberg, Norway, was observed drift- ing towards the rocks near North Berwick, during a strong gale from the N.E. The life-boat went off and brought ashore the vessel's crew of 6...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd Dec., 1858. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The Coastguard ' watchman haying reported a steamer on the North Rock on the 7th April, 1897, the Life-boat Faith was launched at 5.30 A.M., and prooeeding to the vessel found her to be the s.s. Rannoch, of and from...
Category: Services
Florence, of Preston
PENSION.—On the 31st December, while a strong S.W. gale was blowing, a brigantinewas observed with a signal of distress flying in her main rigging. The Life-boat Christopher Brown was launched, and, on boarding the vessel, found her to be...
Loss of Member of Exmouth Crew
AT 4.59 on the afternoon of Christmas Day, 1956, the coastguard informed the Exmouth honorary secretary, Mr.
P. H. C. Butler, that a vessel was burning- red flares four miles south- east of Orcombc Point. This is about...
Category: Services