LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
G. V. H.
Cr0mer, Norfolk.—The motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 7.20 A.M.
on the 30th May, 1938, after information had been receired from the coast-guard that the fishing boat G. V. H., of Great Yarmouth, was in...
Betty Russell
CLACTON.—A vessel having been seen apparently stranded on the Barrow Sand, and showing a signal of distress, on the 7th April, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 2.23 P.M. in a moderate sea, a strong breeze blowing from E.S.E.,...
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JULY 24TH. - TOBERMORY, HEBRIDES.
After the last boat of the day had left for Oban, a local doctor asked the life-boat to take an urgent surgical case to Oban. He thought that the man would not live until the following day...
Provider
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—While the local fishing coble Provider was out fishing on the 25th of October, 1949, a south-easterly wind, increasing to gale force, made a very rough sea. The life-boat Howard D. was launched at eleven o'clock...
Naive, Salamander and Abigail
GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
The Danish Schooner Pfeil, of Blankanesse
About 8 A.M., on the 20th March, during a strong gale from the eastward, a schooner was seen to run on .the Newcome Sands. The sea at once broke over her, and the crew hoisted her ensign in the rigging as a signal of dis- tress. The...
Florence, of Nova Scotia
Again, on the 13th April a brigantine, which proved to be the Florence, of Annapolis, Nova Scotia, with a cargo of salt, was observed with a flag of dis- tress flying, grounded on the Long Bank, about six miles from the entrance to Wex- ford...
An Inland School and the Life-Boats
THE District Organizing Secretary in the Midlands recently visited the school at Alderwasley, in Derbyshire, to present a certificate won by a pupil of the school in this year's essay competition ; it is a remote village of a few hundred...
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The Training Brig James J. Bibby (1)
NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, and FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—Shortly before 9 P.M. on the 12th August, a telephone message was received at New Brighton, stating that the training brig, James J.
Bibby, of Liverpool, was ashore on...
Dinas
brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close to rocks,...