LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zuider Kruis
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 9.55 on the night of the 17th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a vessel was aground on Goat Island in Stornoway Bay. At 10.15 the life-boat The James and Margaret Boyd put out...
Elwin
At 6.15 A.M. on the llth July, a message was received from the South Stack reporting that a small fishing-vessel, in a dismasted con- dition, was showing signals of distress.
The No. 2 Life-boat Fanny Harriet was launched,...
Australian Food Parcels. A Gift to the Life-Boat Service from the Office of the Prime Minister
IN 1947 the Lord Mayor of Sydney started what came to be known as the Australian Express Parcel Scheme for sending food parcels to Great Britain.
Two years later, on November 29th, 1949, the two-millionth parcel was...
Category: Donations
Coxswain Robert Patton of Runswick
JUST after four in the morning of 8th February, 1934, the life-boat station at Runswick, Yorkshire, re- ceived a message from the coastguard that distress signals were being fired five miles N.N.E. of Staithes Nab. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Obituaries
Conquistador
U.S. AND SPANISH VESSELS IN COLLISION Hastings, Sussex. At 8.30 on the evening of the 27th March, 1963, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a red flare southeast of Hastings. The life-boat...
Tempora Mutantur Et Nos Mutamur In Illis
THE almost total disappearance of the old-fashioned small sailing coaster, the place of which baa been taken by steamers, coupled with the vastly improved con- ditions under which the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland are lighted, has...
Category: Articles
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—30th October.
A large vessel had been reported drifting, but no trace of her could be found.—Rewards, £18 2s. Qd..
A Steamer (3)
24th February.
A steamer went ashore on a sandy beach, but her crew were not in danger.
—Rewards, £13 2s. 6rf..
A Boat (1)
Barrow, Lancashire.—2nd October, 1938. A boat was in difficulties, but she got to the shore before help could reach her.—Rewards, £17 2s. 6d..
A Minesweeper (1)
DECEMBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. A minesweeper had broken adrift while being towed, but there was no one on board. - Rewards : Clovelly, £20 8s. ; Appledore, £24 2s. 6d..