LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fanny Grosfield
At about 11 A.M. on the 9th April, during a strong N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, the schooner Fanny Grosfield of Bai'row- in-Furness was seen drifting helplessly with her canvas all blown away, and a little later, when the vessel was...
Morcel
CARDIGAN.—In the early morning of the 16th March, while a strong gale was blowing, signals of distress were seen from a ketch in Cardigan Bay.
The Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Clare was promptly launched and went to...
The S.S. Kabinda
DEC. 8TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.32 A.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that a Belgian steamer had stranded on the Goodwin Sands, north of the wreck of the Mahratta.
A whole S.S.W....
Union T.
On the morning of the 23rd September a heavy gale sprang up, accompanied by a very rough sea. About 52 of the herring-boats were then out at sea, but several of these landed. Others, however, held on by their nets, hoping that the gale would...
Foam, of Dun Laoghaire
AUGUST 12TH. - WICKLOW. About 6.45 in the morning, when the life-boat crew were standing by half an hour after bringing in the yacht Sea Gull, another yacht, the Foam, of Dun Laoghaire, was seen apparently in difficulties in the outer...
The Airliner Cloud of lona (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
Category: Articles
The Plymouth Motor Life-Boat: Inaugural Ceremony
THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
Category: Inaugurations
The Gift Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
FOURTEEN years since a movement com- menced of an altogether novel character in the life-boat work, and which is without precedent in this or in any other country.
At that period a benevolent lady presented the NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Peter Smith of Bembridge, Isle of Wight. He was appointed on the ist January, 1956, and previously served as second coxswain from March, 1954, to Decem- ber, 1955. Since he became a member of the crew in March... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs