LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anna Sarah
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. — The brigantine Anna Sarah, of Ipswich, while on her way from Ardrossan to a French port, with a cargo of coal, was overtaken by a gale from the S.S.E., when off the Maidens, on the coast of Ireland, and her sails...
The Rev. J. B. White, President of the Appledore Branch
By the death on 25th July last of the Rev. J. B. White, President of the Appledore Branch, the Institution has lost one of its oldest and most devoted friends. In 1897 Mr. White became a member of the Committee of the Branch, so that he has...
Category: Obituaries
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Articles Held Over
ALTHOUGH this is an enlarged number it has unfortunately again been neces- sary to hold over, owing to lack of space, the article on the new fast type of Motor Life-boat stationed at Dover ; the article on Grace Darling's coble at the...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
LONG SEARCH IN A FOG Margate, Kent.—At 9.32 on the night of the 12th of October, 1947, the coast- guard reported that a boy who had gone fishing in a dinghy off the Ness at 8 o'clock that morning, had not been seen since. The motor...
Success
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.5 in the morning of the 7th of April, 1949, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard re- ported a vessel flying signals of distress one mile north-north-east of the coast- guard station. At 10.24 the life-boat E.M.E...
Firefly
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1952, during bad weather, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht with a man and woman on board, had an- chored a quarter of a mile north-east of the pier in a...
Mary Immaculate
ENGINE BROKE DOWN Galway Bay. At 12.10 a.m. on 6th January, 1964, the Galway police informed the honorary secretary through the Kilronan coast life-saving station that a fishing boat with four people on board was missing in Galway Bay. There...
Dolphin
Aberdeen.—At 11.14 on the morn- ing of the 4th of June, 1955, the coast- guard rang up to say that the lugger Maria, of Scheveningen, had wirelessed that she had in tow another Dutch lugger, the Dolphin, whose engine room was full of water....
Progress of the New Fleet
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
Category: Articles