LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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• Tenby's first lifeboat, a 10-oared self-righting vessel, costing £125, was sent to the Welsh port in 1852 by The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society which, two years later, handed over all its lifeboats to...
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Bezaleel
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — At 4.50 in the morning, on the 7th of September, 1950, a fishing boat skipper reported that the motor fishing boat Bezaleel, of Banff, had wirelessed that she had sprung a leak, and needed help. A later message...
The Annual Meetings
The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 1993 Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Tuesday after the May Day Bank Holiday, 4 May 1993, saw the Institution's 169th Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards. Although held at...
Category: Meetings
The S.S. Victoria
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 12th December, at 7.45 A.M., during a fresh gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea, signals of distress were observed flying on board a vessel in the ofling. The Lifeboat Herbert Ingram put off to her, and found...
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...
Isabella Helen
ST. PETER'S PORT, GUERNSEY.—While the schooner Isabella Helen, bound from Plymouth for Guernsey with a cargo of limestone and wood, was endeavouring to enter the harbour in a strong gale from E.S.E. on the night of the 14th February, she...
The Danish Motor Vessel Idalith
DANISH VESSEL ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Fowey, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 7th March, 1963, Lloyd's agent at Fowey informed the honorary secretary that a vessel had gone ashore north-east of Par harbour while attempting to...
Ganges
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
Mary
BARGE HELPLESS IN A GALE Appledore, Devon.—Shortly after eight on the evening of the 17th of January, 1948, the barge Mary, belonging to Appledore, was seen to be burning flares for help west of Keelstone Rocks, Instow, and the motor...
Dare
CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...