LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cragoswald
The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...
Union T.
On the morning of the 23rd September a heavy gale sprang up, accompanied by a very rough sea. About 52 of the herring-boats were then out at sea, but several of these landed. Others, however, held on by their nets, hoping that the gale would...
Queen Victoria
Signals of distress were observed on the 3rd of April, in response to which the David Hulett Life-boat went afloat at 10.30 P.M., and found the barque Queen Victoria, of Dublin, stranded on the Swallow Bank. At the master's request, the...
Lifeboatmen of Steel
In September, British Steel Community Awards presented a cheque for £12,000 to Redcar lifeboat station, where two of the crew members are British Steel employees.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory
OCT. 5TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
Information was received that the small fishing boats of Fraserburgh, Violet, Promote II, Boy George, Union, and Victory, had put out at 2.30 P.M. but had not returned by 6.40 P.M.,...
James Campell, of Shelburne
On the 21st October, the John Gray Bell life-boat, sta- tioned at this place, put off and rescued the crew of 11 men from a small boat belonging to the barque James Campbell, of Shelburne, N.S., which had stranded on the North Bank, about 2...
Letters
What's in a name? I was intrigued by the selection of proposed names put forward as alternatives to Shoreline Members (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer 1987, Page 170).
They mostly showed a certain degree of aptness or humour, but...
Category: Correspondence
Maria
KESSINGLAND.—At 1 P.M. on the 14th October the brig Maria, of and from Hartlepool, bound to London with coal, having struck on Covehitheness Point, and being in a sinking condition, made signals of distress, and ran on shore on the beach,...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1936.
£ s. d.
40 12 0 JZHMBH H M MBH, S ubscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
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Category: Accounts
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
Category: Awards