LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Town & Country Driveways Ltd
“WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL”. Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, it’s beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a...
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The S.S. Heire
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
Arcadia and the S.S. Eastwood
JANUARY 9TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK, A N D S K E G N E S S L I N C O L N S H I R E .
Information was received at Wells from the coastguard at about 4.48 PM. that a tug was showing flares off Scolt Head. A strong northerly wind...
The S.S. J. P. Cressey (1)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - ST. DAVID’S, AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE. At 10.15 in the morning a message from the Land’s End Radio Station was received through the St. David’s coastguard that the S.S. Merganser had reported that the S.S. J. P.
RNLI station at Cowes
The inshore lifeboat station at Cowes, Isle of Wight, joined the RNLI fold on 1 July.
The trustees of the town’s independent lifeboat service, which had been serving the community for 19 years, asked the RNLI to take on...
Category: Articles
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the committee of-this fund, held on the 19th January last and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller-General of Inland Eevenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that there had...
Category: Meetings
Dear Reader
When I mentioned at work that I was going to join Ballycotton lifeboat crew, they were so supportive. They know that I need to go home on the dot on training days. They also know I have to eat half an hour before I leave to ensure I’m not...
Category: Articles
The Screw Collier Bessie, of Hayle
During a heavy gale from N.E., on the 16th January, the Bessie, of Hayle, a new screw-collier, worth 10,000/., went a shore on Hayle Bar. She soon became firmly imbedded in the sand, and her crew, consisting of 9 men, had to take to the fore...
Telegraph, of Sunderland
On the 8th February, this valuable life-boat went off again, and rendered the following very gallant service. The sloop Telegraph, of Sunderland, bound to London, with a cargo of bottles, was riding in Yar- mouth Roads, when she parted from...
Defender
On the 19th March, the Ramsgate Steamer and Life-boat, and the Broadstairs Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins, saved the crew of 8 men from the brig Defender, of Sunderland, which was wrecked on the N.W. spit of the Goodwin Sands during a...