LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cromdale
During a dense fog on the 23rd May the ship Cromdale, of Aberdeen, was wrecked at Beast Point. The vessel was a large one of 1,849 tons register, bound from Taltal to Plymouth with a cargo of nitrates. Information of the disaster reached...
Sarah Macdonald
At 12.30 P.M. on the 7th October the Coastguard received a telephone mes- sage from the Smalls Lighthouse stating that a schooner had struck a reef close by and was likely to become a total wreck; also that the crew had taken to the...
Fisher Boy
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—At 8.30 on the evening of the 4th of October, 1954, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Fisher Boy had run ashore at Brimsness. At 8.45, at low water, the life-boat //. C. J. was launched. The...
Summary of a Meeting of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th November, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the Finance Committee be re-named "Finance and General Purposes Committee." Paid £27,617 Is. 7d. for the...
Category: Committee
Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning " Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved • over 1,750 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need m every...
Category: Advertisement
Leigh Hall
JAN. 1 8TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.18 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that flares had been seen about six miles south-east from Ramsgate.
A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea and squalls of...
The Sebastian, of London
FEBRUARY 15TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
About 8.10 in the morning the Stornoway coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress in the neighbourhood of Glas Island, Scalpay, some forty miles away. She was the Sebastian,...
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
Category: Articles
Fredrick
CAMBOIS, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 22nd March, while a strong gale was blowing from X., accompanied by a very heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat Otteald, Sarah and Jane saw a vessel strand on the South Bank at the...
Svanen
The Wexford harbour master informed the life-boat authorities on the evening of the 15th November that the four- masted motor vessel Svanen, of Copen- hagen, was aground on Wexford Bar.
She had a crew of eight on board, and...