LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Dominion
NEW BRIGHTON AND FOBMBY.—Messages by telephone were received at these Life-boat stations on the evening of the 7th March stating that a steamer had stranded and was in need of assistance.
At 6.17 the New Brighton Steam Life...
Douglas Pennant
.—On the 22nd Jan- uary, the life-boat London Sunday Schools and Charles Scare was got out in conse- quence of a message stating that 4 men were to be seen on the Dulas Rocks. The boat was launched in a heavy sea, with a strong easterly wind...
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
G.B.
PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL.—At about 6 A.M., on the 23rd March, the Coxswain of the Life-boat Charlotte, waa informed that a vessel was firing signals of distress, having stranded on the Manacles rocks. A light wind wag then blowing from N.E.,...
Empire Queen of Dublin
On the 5th August, the ship Empire Queen, of Dublin, was stranded during foggy weather on the south end of the Arldovv Bank. The life-boat Alfred and Ernest, sta- tioned at Courtown, went out, in reply to signals of distress, and at the...
Two Letters
THE first of these letters, from a little boy in Essex, came to the Institution last January, the second followed in September.
DEAR SIR,—My grannie has given me Five shilling to you for the life boat because I don't...
Category: Correspondence
Sailboards
Local knowledge vital in rescue of two missing boardsailors Helmsman Martin Icke of Portsmouth's Atlantic inshore lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on Vellum after the lifeboat...
Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
Category: Articles
Fedora
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the morning of the 31st January the Italian steamer Fedora, of Genoa, and the Russian steamer Pravda were in collision in a position reported to be about fourteen miles from...