LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—In response to signals of distress shortly after 10 P.M. on the 27th April the Life-boat Hubert and Susan went to the assistance of the s.s. Attiki, of Andros, Greece, which ran on to the rocks at Newbiggin Church...

At about 3 P.M. on the 21st March, during a gale from the S.S.W., a number of the big trawlers belonging to Penzance, which had been at anchor off Newlyn, ran for Penzance Harbour for shelter. Several of the steam drifters also started to...

At 5 A.M. on the 16th March, twenty of the fishing cobles put to sea to haul their crab pots, but two hours later the wind shifted to the N.E. and increased to a gale, bring- ing with it a very heavy sea. The boats at once ran for shelter,...

At about 8 P.M. on the 9th December the s.s.

Tresfond, of Stavanger, bound from Christiania to South Shields, ran ashore about half a mile north of the boathouse, duringfoggyweather. Shortly afterwards a stiff N.E. wind got...

When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.

Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...

A welcome at Bembridge lifeboat station for Nigel Foster who raised £350 for Bembridge ladies' guild in the London Marathon. The cheque was received by Mrs S. Snelling, guild president. With them are (I to r front centre) Mrs D.... - View image in PDF

RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Pausillipo, of Ramsey, while on a voyage from Whitehaven with coals, was caught in a gale off Ramsey, and after losing her mainboom, and having her mainsail split, went ashore, in a leaky state, to leeward...

The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and...