LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Queen of the Isles
At 11 P.M. on the 14th November signals of distress were shown by the schooner Queen of the Isles, of Carnarvon.
The wind was blowing a whole gale from the N.N.E., and a heavy sea was running.
The George...
Brothers
TENBY.—On the morning of the 8th February, during a heavy westerly gale, the ketch Brothers lying in Caldy Roads, parted her chain. She then made sail, and stood across the bay, when her mainboom was carried away, which disabled her, and...
The S.S. Loch Ness
MONTKOSE.—Information was received at about 8.15 A.M. on the 5th January that a large steamer was ashore abreast of Kinnaber, about three miles north of Montrose. A strong gale from S. by E.
was blowing, with rain, end...
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
Hondeklip
On the 18th February, while a moderate gale was blowing from the E.S.E.
with a rough sea, the brig Hondeklip, of Swansea, bound ftom Ghent for Dublin, was observed ashore on the north-east part of the Goodwin Sands. The...
The South Sand Head Lightvessel
WALMER.—On the 6th Feb., 1897, in response to guns and rockets, the reserve Life-boat temporarily placed on this station was launched at about 3.45 A.M., proceeded to the South Sand Head lightvessel, and ascertained that she had been run...
Nornen
BURNHAM.—On the morning of the 3rd March the barque Nornen, having drifted up the Channel from Lundy Island and having lost all her sails, went Aground on the Burrows Hats, in a whole gale from W.N.W., a heavy sea and thick weather, with...
The S.S. Fermanagh
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — 12th March. The motor life-boat J. and W.
was launched at 1.30 P.M. as the coastguard had reported that a vessel in Luce Bay was flying distress signals.
A strong S.E. gale was...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
£ s. d.
40 14 0 _ _I H Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
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Category: Accounts
Plasma
Kirkcudbright.—On the night of the 20th January, 1938, information was received from the Isle of Whithorn coastguard that a steamer in Port Yerrock Bay appeared to be dragging her anchor in a dangerous position.
A strong...