LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Here and There
IND COOPE and the Co-op have run a joint promotion in Scotland to raise funds for three D class lifeboats for service on Scotland's coasts. The first of the three, to be stationed at Stranraer, was handed over last March in George Square...
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Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
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Juliet, of Greenock
On the 29th December, intelligence was received here that a vessel was anchored at the entrance of the harbour, near Hell Bay, with an en- sign flying half-mast high. The wind was W.S.W., blowing a very strong gale. The Padstow life-boat was...
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
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Morag
Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report had been...
Topdal and the S.S. Kittiwake
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. — On the evening of the 6th October the Coxswain of the Life-boat Civil Service No. 5 received a telegram from Whitehaven warning him to watch for a barque coming up the Solway Firth. A strong gale was blowing from S.W....
Erna
The Yar- mouth Life-boat men were exposed for more than eleven hours to the fury of a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, in connection with the wreck of the barque Erna, of Arendal, which became un- manageable when off Yarmouth, on the llth...
Socoa
A large full- rigged ship went ashore off Cadgwith oil the evening of the 1st August in a fresh southerly breeze and moderate sea, the Life-boat Minnie Moon was launched with all despatch and pro- ceeded alongside her....
Ocean Prince
On the morning of the 5th October the steam trawler Ocean Prince, of Aber- deen, outward bound from Aberdeen, was making for Stromness Harbour with damaged boiler, when she ran aground on the Point of Ness, near Stromness. The vessel and...
Mabel
In a strong south-easterly gale, on 26th October, the ketch Mabel, of Bideford, went ashore on the Dogger Bank, in Wexford Bay. The vessel, which was loaded with salt, was bound from Gloucester to Wexford. The casualty occurred soon after...