LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boat Abercora
On the 2nd October, during a strong S.W. gale, it was reported that a steamboat—the Dulce of Alercorn—was driving down towards the pier. The Deputy Pier- Master was informed, and it was deemed advisable to assemble the crew of the Life-boat...
Tarbaby
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 7.49 a.m. on 25th August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that a German ship had reported the auxiliary yacht Tarbaby was in distress fifteen miles north-east of the Sunk...
Rissa
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 early on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a man and two women had landed at Filey in a dinghy. The man had reported that they had come from the yacht Rissa, which was on fire off...
Irish Government Grant
The Minister for Transport and Power in the Irish Republic, Mr. Brian Lenihan, has decided to make a payment to the Institution of an annual grant of £10,000 towards the cost of operating the life-boat services in the Irish Republic. In...
Category: Donations
Pindos
The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
United States Life-Saving Service
It appears from the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1893, issued a few months since from the Government Printing Office at Washington, that there are now 243...
Category: Articles
James B. Graham, of Hartlepool
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a flare was seen, and was...
Crimbria
At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February the Coastguard re- j ported that the Girdler Light-vessel was firing distress signals, and shortly after- wards a message was received by wire- less telegraphy from a steamer stating that the Girdler...
Sailfin
TRAWLER PULLED CLEAR Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.15 a-m- °n 20th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Sailfin of North Shields had grounded on Newcombe Sands. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick...
Catherine
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...