LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The President Garfield
The ketch Presi- dent Garfield, of Bidef ord, was proceeding to sea from Bude at about 8.40 A.M. on the 14th March, in a moderate N.E.
breeze and considerable ground swell.
On the vessel reaching the bar,...
Clacton-On-Sea: Celebration of a Centenary Year By Jack Froom
A CENTENARY DINNER AND DANCE Was held at the Royal Hotel, Clacton, on April 21, 1978, at which Raymond Baxter, guest of honour and a member of the RNLI Public Relations Committee, presented the centenary vellum to the branch president,...
Category: Articles
The Danish M.V. Bettann
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.30 a.m. on I9th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish m.v. Bettann, which was anchored off St. Helens Fort, was firing red flares. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
The S.S. Inger Jokann
At 8.15 r.M. on the 5th December Coxswain Haylett was informed that a vessel was ashore on the Scroby Sands and showing signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life- boat, Covent Garden, were at once assembled and the boat proceeded to...
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1873-4
IN presenting to Parliament the Wreck Register and Chart for the year 1873—4, the BOARD OF TRADE observe that it has been found advisable to make up its tables from the 1st July to the 30th June, instead of from the 1st January to the 31st...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Minerva
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat Ellen and Eliza was launched at 5.45 A.M. on the 16th February, and proceeded to the s.s. Minerva, of Sunderland, which had stranded on Quarry Point in a strong breeze from S. by E., a moderate sea,...
New Ways of Raising Money
When the Barnt Green ladies' life-boat guild had their annual meeting the collecting box from the Barnt Green sailing club was opened. It contained over £3 —mostly in half-crowns. This is because there is a local rule in the sailing...
Category: Donations
the Sailing Boat Dolphin
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that the sailing boat Dolphin had cap- sized near the Bailey lighthouse. At 5.25 the life-boat R.P.L. put out in smooth sea. There...
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brighton
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...
Category: Obituaries