LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Herring Coble Thankful Arthur
An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
A Foregin Ship
A foreign ship was observed in a perilous position off this place, during a heavy S.S.W. gale, on the 3rd January, 1869, and on her hoisting signals of distress, the life-boat Birmingham put off with the promptitude and skill which...
Two Sisters
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
Appointments
Mr. S. Macdonald, F.R.I.N.A., M.I.E.S.S., S.N.A.M.E., has been appointed Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of the R.N.L.I. Mr. Macdonald is married and is aged 50.
He was educated at Greenock and Edinburgh Academies and...
Category: Committee
Lion
LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...
August
Launches 39 Lives rescued 13
AUGUST 3RD. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At three in the afternoon the coastguard reported a vessel aground south of Holyhead in dense fog. There was no wind and the sea was smooth....
Category: Services
A Treasure Ship In All Her Pride
The schooner Lamorna ready to sail for the South China Seas in search of Captain Kidd's treasure. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ino, of West Hartlepool
On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.
It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...
Strathden
On the morning of the 25th August, during a S.S.W. gale and heavy sea, the barque Strathden, of Dundee, was seen to go ashore on the north-west end of the Middle Cross Sand. A yawl immediately proceeded to her assistance, and the master...