LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emerald Isle
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th March, at about 6.80 P.M., the trawler, Emerald Isle, of Whitehaven, which had been beating about in the bay for about three hours, evidently waiting for water, suddenly made for the harbour mouth, and...
Oberscew
NORTH BERWICK.—The schooner Oberscew, from Dychling for Burntisland, laden with esparto grass, stranded on the rocks at Seacliff Point during a strong E.N.E.
breeze, a very rough sea and a thick fog on the 29th March. A...
Jeune Arthur
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 19th January, during the prevalence of a whole gale and heavy sea, the cutter Jeune Arthur, of Cherbourg, bound from Dunkirk for Granville, was observed making for the land under forestaysail and jib...
The S.S. Chamois
WINTEETON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Lifeboat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat in...
Miss E. M. Jordan, of Dover
The Institution has lost, by the death of Miss E.'M. Jordan, of Dover, in April of this year, one of its latest, but one of its most enthusiastic honorary workers.
She became the Honorary Secretary of the Dover...
Category: Obituaries
Coxswain James Chisholm, of St. Andrews, Fifeshire
James Chisholm, ex-Coxswain of St.
Andrews, died on the 14th March last, at the age of 81. He had served as Second Coxswain from 1887 until 1892, and as Coxswain from 1892 until 1920, when he retired at the age of 71, and...
Category: Obituaries
A Boat
ON 25th October last, the Motor Lifeboat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, went to the help of a small boat which, while on the way from Walton to Clacton, had been carried out to sea.
The sea was rough, with heavy squalls...
Lizzie and the Laddie
ST. IVES.—Signals of distress having been shown by a vessel lying at anchor in the bay, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E. with a heavy sea, the Lifeboat Exeter was launched at I.d5 A.M.
on the 27th March. The...
Thomas and Bluejacket
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Cockle Light-vessel on the 16th January, the Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 7.15 P.M.
A light breeze was then blowing from S.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather...
Two Shrimping Boats, the Edith and Alice and Don't Know
LOWESTOFT.—On the morning of the 19th July, during a strong N.E. wind, a very heavy sea, and thick weather wi th rain, the No. 2 Life-boat Stock Exchange was launched, , having brought up on Corton Mate about four and a half miles N. of...