LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sanserit
FEBRUARY 13TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS- SHIRE. At 2.50 A.M. the Wick coastguard reported by telephone that signals of distress had been seen in Scrabster Bay, and at 3.30 A.M. the motor life-boat H.C.J. was launched. A strong N.N.E. gale was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...
Category: Services
Response and Responsibility
For the hard-pressed citizens of 1940s Europe, the truth of the slogan ‘waste not, want not’ was proven every day. In 2010, the message is being embraced anew by the RNLI to help it meet its responsibilities and to stretch donations ever...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
Category: Services
Rapid
Soon after midnight on the 28th February, during a fresh gale from the S.E.
and a rough sea, the Coastguard watchman reported that a vessel was burning signals of distress in the roadstead. The coxswain of the Life-boat...
The Steamers Coniston Fell and Ribble
SWANSEA.—The Wolverkampton Lifeboat was launched at 9.35 P.M. on the 26th January to the assistance of two steamers, the Coniston Fell, of Liverpool, and the Ribble, of Whitehaven, which had been in collision about half a mile N.E. of...
A Barge
NEWPORT, PEMBROKESHIRE.—The Lifeboat Clevedon was the means of rendering timely service on the occasion of the Begatta held on the 17th August. A strong wind sprung up from the N.N.E., and the sea was somewhat rough, and the barge on which...
The S.S. Tolfaen
LLANDDULAS.—The s.s. Tolfaen, of Liverpool, bound from Liverpool forNewry with wheat, was seen at anchor in Ehos Bay, with a heavy list to port and flying a signal of distress during a strong gale from the N.N.W., and a very heavy sea on the...
Margaret (1)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS.—On the 1st February, at 10.40 p.m., during a fresh breeze from S.E., signals were fired from the Gull Lightship. On the Lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeding to her, it was ascertained that a large flare...