LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Betty
At 4 A.M. on the 11th April, during a strong wind from the E.N.E., and a heavy sea, the British Workman Lifeboat was launched to the aid of the brig Betty of Tonsberg, Norway, which had grounded on the Hasborough Bank, and had floated off in...
The S.S. Yewglen (1)
FEBRUARY 10TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND . A t 8.20 P.M. fishermen reported that a vessel was ashore on the Outer Carrs Rocks, north of Newbiggin Point. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
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'Coxswain Edward G. Williams . . . Did His Best . . . to Edge Her Out So That I Could Obtain Some Seascapes. But It Was Just Choppy Enough to Make Things Difficult . . .'
Coxswain Edward G. - View image in PDF
Williams ... did his best... to edge her out so that I could obtain some seascapes. But it was just choppy enough to make things difficult. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fairy
CARNSORE—On the 19th December, the Life-boat Iris was launched to the assistance of the dandy Fairy, of Wexford, which vessel is employed as tender to the Tuskar lightship. Her mast had been carried away while wearing, during a fresh N.W....
Fishing Cobles (2)
DEC. 26TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBER.
LAND. During the morning a strong N.E.
breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and anxiety was felt for the safety of three fishing cobles. There was a heavy swell at the...
The Wreck of the "Schiller."
ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...
Category: Articles
A Launching Accident
ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...
Category: Articles
The Doyen of Honorary Secretaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
Category: Branches
Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 153)
Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.
The operation was completed by 1720 and...
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