LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boatmen In London
THIRTY-EIGHT life-boatmen, from English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh stations were invited to attend the annual meeting in London, on 26th April, to receive medals and vellums awarded to them for gallantry during the previous year. This is the...
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Ran I
Drifting in gale A DUTCH YACHT, the 42ft Ran I, reported at 2238 on Thursday June 4, 1981, that she was in difficulties in the vicinity of Shipwash Lightvessel; her engine had broken down and she was drifting in gale force winds. She had...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHPORT, LANCASHIRE.—The Life- boat on this station was rapidly becoming unfit for further service, and it has there- fore been replaced by a new 10-oared boat, 34 feet long, and 8J feet wide. The legacy of 5001. bequeathed to the...
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Themis
At 5.15 in the morning of the 23rd February, the Coastguard reported that he had been watching a vessel for some time, and apparently she was on the North Rock.
The crew of the Life-boat Faith were assembled at the...
The Four-Masted Schooner Reform
On the morning of the 16th March a four-masted schooner, the Reform, of Stavanger, bound from Bankok for Greenock with teak wood, was sighted off Burr Point flying signals denoting that she was sinking. The crew of the Lifeboat were summoned...
The Motor Fishing Boats Provider, Galilee and Pilot Me
FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee, Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early in the morning of the 29th April, 1938, the localfishing fleet put to sea. At 11 A.M. the Venus, Success, Easter Morn, Noel II, Gallilee and Provider were off the Rock Buoy, waiting for the tide to rise. The...
A Motor Boat (2)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.55 on the after- noon of the 15th of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a woman living near Thatcher Rock, Torquay, had seen a motor boat capsize. Her crew of three were reported to be...
The S.S. Fermain
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 29th of December, 1952, the master of the S.S. Fermain, of Guernsey, which had fourteen persons on board, wirelessed that his ship had struck a rock and had been badly holed about...
A Sea Cadet Naval Whaler
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of May, 1957, the motor mechanic's wife received a telephone message that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea off the Derby pool, Harrison Drive. The message was...