LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kremlin
At 6 A.M.
on the 8th April the Coastguard re- ported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails, to the...
Doddington, of Dumfries
On the 4th March, the schooner Doddtngtan, of Dumfries, was obliged, in consequence of the severity of the weather, to ran for Ayr Harbour, when she struck on the Nicholas Bock, This rock is about four hundred yards from the south pier, and...
Claudia of Belfast
On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
At the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 18th inst., and presided over by Mr. Chae. G. Turner, C.B., Comptroller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. Charles Dibdin, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the...
Category: Meetings
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of this fund, held on the 16th. January last, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that during the past...
Category: Meetings
San Casto
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out...
Lady Elizabeth
Margate, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 18th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the police had reported that a dinghy had capsized and that two boys were in the water half a mile off Minnis Bay. At 5.1 the life-boat...
Galaxy
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.13 a.m. on 23rd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an urgent appeal had been intercepted from the master of the motor vessel Galaxy (the wireless transmitting station "Radio...
James, of Arbroath
The Life-boat People's Journal, No. 2, stationed at this place, was launched on the night of the 18th Jan., at 5.20 P.M., and proceeded, through a heavy sea and S.W. gale, to the assistance of the schooner James, of Arbroath, which had...
Zeus
Shortly before 10 P.M. on the 9th January the Norwegian steamer Zeus, bound from Havre to Burntisland in ballast,stranded about half a mile to the south of Flam- borough Head. Information of the casualty was telephoned to the cox- swain of...