LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cygnet, of Workington
On the after- noon of the 4th January, a small schooner, called the Cygnet, of Workington, with a j cargo of slates, was making this harbour j when she struck on the North Bank, and j afterwards drifted behind the North Pier. | It was...
Flores
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON.
ESSEX. At about 7.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that information had been received from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel that a vessel to the W.N.W. was sounding S.O.S. on her siren. A...
Livingstone
LYDD, DUNGENESS. — The Life-boat David Hulett was launched on the 11th March, in reply to signals of distress, and proceeded to the ship Livingstone, of Yarmouth, N.S., which had stranded near No. 2 Battery, East Bay, Dungeness, during a...
Annual Report. 1889
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Saturday, 23rd day of March, 1889, The Right Honourable JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, P.O., M.P., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Gerco
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 11.16 P.M. on the 24th January, 1939, the coastguard reported a vessel making signals on her siren. The night was misty with a light S.S.E. wind and a moderate swell. Later the coastguard reported that a vessel...
Onward
PALLING-BY-THE-SEA, NORFOLK. — On the 1st December, at 4 P.M., the British Workman Life-boat proceeded, during a strong E.S.E. wind and heavy sea, to the aid of a vessel which was signalling for assistance. She proved to be the barque Onward...
A Gallant Coxswain
THE retirement on pension of John Owston, for forty-one years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-boat, is an event in our annals which provides an opportunity of giving some brief record of a noble life which has been devoted to the service of...
Category: Articles
Cabinet, of Newcastle
The barque Cabinet, of Newcastle, went on the Manacle Rocks, off the Cornish coast, on the night of the 11th Jan., after she had been de- tained in the Channel for more than a week through stress of weather. It was blowing strongly at the...
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
She...
A Painting By L F Gilding Showing a Lifeboat of the Rhli Ami Tin Raf Lysander Aircraft Arriving to Rescue a 'Ditched' Bomber Crew
A painting by L. F. Gilding showing a lifeboat of the RhLI ami tin RAF Lysander aircraft arriving to rescue a 'ditched' bomber crew..
Category: Drawings