LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Nile
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—At about 5.30 A.M.
on the 29th October, during a strong breeze from the W.S.W.,and thick weatheraccompanied by rain, rockets were fired from the Cross Sand Light-vessel. The Caister No. 2 Life-boat Godsend...
Pioneer
PETEBHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.—While the Coxswain of the Life-boat George Pickard was working in the Life-boat house during the afternoon of the 1st April, information was brought him that a vessel had gone ashore at Scotston Head. After...
Fishing Boats
FLAMBOROUGH.—On the 15th January, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W., with a heavy sea, six of the fishing-boats were trying to reach the North Landing, but were unable to do so in consequence of the state of the wind and sea. 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...
Naar Myn Genoegen
While a strong wind was blowing from the S.S.W., with a rough sea, on the morning of the 28th June, two trawlers grounded on the Scroby Sand. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to their assistance at about 8.20, but before they were...
A Grateful German Skipper
IN The Lifeboat for March, 1923, appeared an account of the wreck of the Adolf Vinnen, a German five-masted sailing ship, which ran ashore near The Lizard on 9th February of that year, and of thegallant attemptstojcescue her crew made by the...
Category: Articles
Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough
Another old and most valued friend of the Institution, Miss Annie Swallow, of Peterborough, passed away on 24th January. Miss Swallow had been a Life-boat worker for thirty years, first as Honorary Secretary of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund,...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Sea Venture
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 2.10 P.M.
** on the 20th October, 1939, a message was received from the senior naval officer that the s.s. Sea Venture had been sunk by enemy action fifteen to twenty miles east of Flugga, and that...
Lizzie
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—Two boys put out from Sunderland in the small boat Lizzie on the night of the 19th September, but soon got into difficulties, and their boat drifted about all night.
Next day the second coxswain of...
Le Vieux Tigre
During a dense fog on the evening of the 27th March the steam trawler Le Vieux Tigre, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks at Beast Point. A moderate E.S.E.
wind was blowing and the sea was smooth. Lloyd's signal station re...