LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Award to Master of Steamer
THE Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation has awarded a binocular glass to Captain Donald Joseph MacNeil of Glasgow, master of the coastal tank steamer B.P. Distributor, for skill and seamanship in rescuing six members of the crew of the...
Category: Awards
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services
Sam Baxter Mbe,
MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978 and deputy launching authority from 1978 to 1991,...
Category: Obituaries
Der Zehnte Juni
STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...
Richard and Elizabeth, of Portsmouth
On the 12th April the sloop Richard and Elizabeth, of Portsmouth, coal laden, went ashore off Hasborough, on the Norfolk coast. The Life-boat stationed there, the Huddersfield, -was speedily launched through the breakers to her aid.
Traen
The brig Traen, of Christiania, was wrecked during a moderate north- easterly gale and thick weather, on the 2nd March, on the Goswick Sands.
About 7.30 A.M. the coastguard reported by telephone that a vessel was ashore.<...
Apollinaris, of Rotterdam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—12th December. The motor vessel Apollinaris, of Rotterdam, had grounded north of Winterton look-out, but refloated without help. — Rewards, £27 7s. 6d..
The Institution's Income at a Glance
The Institution's Income at a Glance.
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1932.
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Category: Accounts
Foam, of Wisbech
On the 23rd July, the yacht Foam, of Wisbeach, was observed in a very dangerous position, with the sea breaking over her, off this place. It was blowing a strong gale from the N.E. at I the time. The Licensed Victuallers life-boat was...
An East Coast Gale
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 54 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 15th, 1934 - ... 63,615 An East Coast Gale.
ON 13th December an...
Category: Articles