LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adelaide ,of Malahide
The Life-boat on this station went out on the 31stOctober, during a fresh gale from the E., and saved the crew of 5 men of the schooner Adelaide, of Malahide,...
Veritas
On the previous day the Kingsdowne Life-boat had gone out to the Goodwin Sands, in reply to signals of distress, and had found the barque Veritas ashore there. On account of the state of the weather, the shore boats that had gone off to her...
Three Fishing Cobles and a Pilot Coble
WHITBY.—At noon on the 20th April, daring calm weather and a heavy sea, three fishing cobles and » Hartlepool pilot coble, the latter with only one man on board, were observed making for Whitby Harbour. It was considered unsafe for them...
Betsy
PALLING, NORFOLK.—The ketch Betsy, of and for Newcastle, from London, with iron, stranded at Palling, during a strong S.E. wind and a heavy sea, on the 1st of March. The No. 1 Life-boat, Good Hope, was promptly launched; but the water was...
Admiral Nelson, of Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON. — Information was brought to the Life-boat Station at 9.45 P.M. on the 17th May, that a vessel had beaten over the Brazil Bank and had sunk in the Kock Channel. The wind was blowing from the W.S.W. at the time; the weather was...
Florence Mary
A fishing-dandy was seen, daring a break in a thick fog at 10 A.M. on the 16th June, stranded on the North Scroby Sand. A strong breeze was blowing at the time from the 8., and there was a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to...
A Yacht and Two Barges
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 2nd June, 1938, the motor life-boat, as reported on page 551 of The Life-boat for October, rescued seven people from a yacht and two barges, and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum was awarded to...
Euclase
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 7.28 on the morning of the 22nd of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the steam trawler Euclase, of Granton, had run ashore at Noss Head in dense fog. At 7.50 the life- boat City of Edinburgh was...
Speedwell
On receipt of a message on the morning of the 1st July, stating that a yacht was aground on the West Hoyle Bank, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 11.45, and on reaching the vessel found she was the Speedwell, cutter-rigged, of...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
IT is with the greatest regret that we have to record the death of Mr. H.
Fineham, I.S.O., who was Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund from February 1906 to June 1914. Mr. Fincham, who was inspired with...
Category: Obituaries