LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isabella Heron, of Blyth
During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and...
Foxhound
On the night of the 18th October the honorary secretary received word from West Angle and St. Ann's Head that rockets were being fired in Mill Bay. A moderate S.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and visibility was...
(Left) the Tank Test Models Were Fitted With a Lawn-Mower Engine, Radio Control and Motion Sensing Instruments for Freerunning Seakeeping Trials.
(Left) The tank test models were fitted with a lawn-mower engine, radio control and motion sensing instruments for freerunning seakeeping trials.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Paul Boyton
RAMSGATE AND NORTH DEAL.—On the 20th September, at about 12.30 A.M., the ship Paul Boyton, of Yarmouth, N.S., 1097 tons, bound from Baltimore to Hamburg with a cargo of maize, went ashore on the Goodwin Sands during a fresh wind from the W....
A Speed Boat
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 9.20 on the evening of the 4th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police at Lymington had reported a small boat in distress off the West Lepe buoy. At 9.35 the life-boat S.G.E....
Florence Myall
Southcnd-on-Sea, Essex. — On the evening of the 21st August a message was received from the pier head that a barge was in a dangerous position west of the pier. She was the Florence Myall, of Rochester, with a crew of two, and her sails had...
Morning Star
On the 7th December signals of distress were ob- served on a vessel near the Little Orme's Head. The Sisters' Memorial life-boat was launched, and found the vessel at anchor, with her mast carried away. She proved to be the flat...
Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...
Category: Meetings
Munin, of Bergen
Wick.
ON the afternoon of 29th August news was received at Wick of a vessel, found later to be the steamer Munin, of Bergen,Norway, which had gone ashore on the east side of North Ronaldshay, the northernmost island of the...
Bendilow
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—The motor life-boat Langham was launched at 11.22 A.M. on the 22nd May, as information had been received through the coastguard that the yacht Bendilow, of Portsmouth, was in a dangerous position near Sandown pier....