LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British Queen, of London, and Brig Valiant, of Jersey
A very- sudden and severe storm was experienced here on the 10th February, when no less than six vessels were wrecked at the mouth of the Tyno within a short dis- tance of each other, besides others that received considerable damage in...
The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats, Built from the Plans of the Watson Cabin Type
The Two Belgian Motor Life-Boats Built From The Plans of the Watson Cabin Type. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Members of His Crew
members of his crew. They are (I to r) Fred Menzies, Bill Duthie, Graham Clark, Donald Birnie, lain Sutherland, Robert Morrice and James Buchan.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1938
IN 1938 the coastguard organization took action in 944 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress or to be overdue round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. This is three times as many...
Category: Articles
Annual Report. 1894
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town. Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 21st day of April, 1894, His GRACE THE DUKE or WESTMINSTER, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Zair, of Maldon
AUGUST 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties east of Clacton pier, and that the Clacton life-boat was unable to launch, owing to the lowness of the tide. He asked...
The S.S. Sir William Stephenson
On the 29th August the s.s. Sir William Steplienson, of Newcastle, whilst bound for London with a general cargo, struck a mine in the Yarmouth Roads, and two men were killed by the explosion. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was promptly...
The Edinburgh Lightvessel
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
The S.S. Santa Rita
The Motor Life- boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was launched at 6.40 A.M. on the 31st October, as information had been received from the Coastguard that a vessel was on the Tongue Sand. She found the s.s. Santa Rita, of Panama,...
The S.S. Flying Falcon
HOYLAKE AND NEW BRIGHTON.—On the afternoon of the 29th July the s.s. Flying Falcon, of Liverpool, bound there from Mostyn with a large number of passengers, stranded on the East Hoyle Sandbank near Spencer's Spit.
The...