LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Betsy, of Sunderland
On the night of 9th January, 1859, the schooner Betsy, of Sunderland, ran aground off Newbiggen Point, on the Northumberland Coast, the night being dark, and a strong sea setting in from the east at the time. On signals of distress being...
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 16.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 5 (twice), 9 (twice), July 3 (3 times), 7, 10, 26, August 4, 17 and 20.
Abersoch, Gwynedd June 5, 10, 16, 30, July 11, 18, 21, August 11, 20, 21 and...
Category: Services
Abandoned ship
Five French fishermen took to their liferaft in the early hours of Tuesday 8 March when their 17m trawler Cap Lizard ran aground half a mile from Alderney. The island’s Trent class lifeboat Roy Barker...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 14th day of March, 1871, His Grace the DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Contributions from Shipping Companies
As readers of The Lifeboat know, we have for some time been urging on the shipping community the claims of the Institution to their generous support, since it maintains a national service in which they are more directly interested than any...
Category: Articles
September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
Category: Services
None (3)
Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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Lord Keith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.25 A.M. on the 8th February, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone ashore about a mile north of Benacre look-out.
A S. by E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea, the night was...
Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The steam trawler Tranio, of Milford Haven, ran on the rocks in Killeany Bay, during foggy weather on the morning of the 4th March, 1938. She was bound for the fishing grounds and had a crew of eleven on board. A...