LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Harbour Launch Pen-Cw
PROPELLER PROBLEM At 1.40 p.m. on loth June, 1964, the harbour authorities told the honorary secretary that the harbour launch Pen-Cw had fouled her propeller on a wire rope outside the north breakwater and was drifting on to rocks. In a...
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings
Northward
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FRASERBURGH SEPTEMBER 2 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just after two in the morning the coastguard told the life-boat station that a vessel was ashore on the Cairnbulg Briggs, a reef of rocks about two miles away...
The Motor Coble Jean and Barbara
MARCH 1ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning, while the fishing cobles were out, the wind increased until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a rising sea. All the cobles returned - many leaving their...
Six Months of Peace
In the last six months of war the Life-boat Service rescued 527 lives.
In the first six months of peace it has rescued 295 lives..
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLANTRAE, N.B.—On the application of the local residents, a Life-boat station has been established at Ballantrae, a small village on the coast of Ayrshire, where Shipwrecks occasionally take place—three having occurred there, with loss of...
Category: Articles
Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead
The life-boat at St. Andrew's, 1S.B., saved the crew of 4 men of the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, which had stranded off the entrance to the harbour.
(Below) City of London
(Below) City of London returning from a demonstration run on the River Thames between London Bridge and Tower Bridge with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress and other principal guests on board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishing Boats- Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and Provider
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...
Letters
Sea Rhine founders I would like to thank you and the crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat for your help when you came to the assistance of Sea Rhine off Lowestoft on Wednesday morning, February 11.
It was a...
Category: Correspondence