LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
ARBROATH.—Four fishing-boats having been overtaken by a heavy sea on the 15th January, the Life-boat William Souter was launched at 6 P.M., as the boats would incur considerable danger in crossing the bar, on which the water was breaking...
Lizzie, of London
On the 19th Sept. at 2 A.M. the Palmerston was launched, on information reaching this station of a wreck on the Brierdean Kocfcs; and m a heavy sea and very dark night the rescue of the 12 persons on board the wrecked vessel, the screw-...
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Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire. — At 10.50 on the night of the 25th of May, 1954, the Lytham police rang up to say that the pile beacon, known as Peet's Light, three and a quarter miles west of Lytham pier in the estuary of the River...
Success
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCAHDINESHIRE. On the 2nd March the Life-boat Sarah Ann Holden was launched at 11 A.M. and went to the assistance of the fishingboat Success which was in danger while making for the harbour in a S.E. breeze and a rough sea. The...
Forthcoming Articles
IN the next number of The Lifeboat will appear accounts of the naming of the new Porthdinllaen Motor Life-boat by Dame Margaret Lloyd George, and of the visit of the Margate Motor Life-boat to Calais for the unveiling of a memorial to...
Category: Articles
White Heather
At about 2 P.M. on the 10th May the Coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse reporting that a yacht was ashore on the Sands. The crew of the motor Life-boat Albert Edward was summoned, and the boat...
Rosstrevor
GREENORE.—On the 2nd March the steamer Rosstrevor, of Dublin, belonging to the London and North Western Railway Company, left Greenore at about 6 P.M., bound for Holyhead, with passengers and a general cargo. She had proceeded a little...
Coastguard Shield
Mr. Anthony Grant, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry, presented the Coastguard Shield for the most meritorious wreck service of 1970/71 to the Peterhead C.R.C. in July. The award was made for the rescue...
Category: Awards
New Baltic Exchange Life-Boat
The new life-boat at Salcombe, which was given the name The Baltic Exchange to commemorate the support received by the Institution over many years from the Baltic Exchange, was named by Mrs. H. M. Whithouse, the widow of a former Chairman of...
Category: Inaugurations
Uruguay
On the 26th June the Kingsdowne Life- boat went off, in reply to signals of distress from the Light-ships on the Good- win Sands, to the steamer Uruguay, of Liverpool, which had gone on the Sands, and remained alongside the vessel until she...