LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Captain Barton Holmes a Retired Us Master
Captain Barton Holmes, a retired US master mariner living in Stolen Island, New York, is a good friend to Aberdeen lifeboat station. In each of the past eight or nine years he has made a model ship and donated it to the branch. His latest... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wittezee
NOVEMBER 12TH. - THE MUMBLES GLAMORGANSHIRE. The Dutch motor vessel Wittezee, of Rotterdarn, stranded below Port Eynon Point. The life-boat went out at 9 A.M., three-quarters of an hour after she had returned from the service of the day...
Three Fishing Boats
On the 24th No- vember three fishing-boats were seen making for the harbour. The weather at the time was very stormy and a heavy sea was running on the Bar, through which it was feared they could not pass safely. The Albert Victor life-boat...
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
Fishing Cobles
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND. A very strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy and rough sea, and as six local fishing cobles were out, the life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched at 10.40 A.M. She met five of the...
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
The Register of Wrecks for 1863
THE Return of the Registrar-general of Seamen, recently published, shows that during the past year 413,972 vessels—representing a tonnage of nearly 62 millions— entered inwards and cleared outwards from British ports. The estimated value of...
Category: Articles
A Boat (3)
Newhaven, Sussex - At 5.47 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, a report came from Roedean School that cries for help had been heard from just off the cliffs.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launchedat 5.55. It was three hours...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—The s.s. Bion, of Newcastle, laden with oil, from Batoum for London, stranded on the inner part of the North Goodwin Sand in a thick fog on the morning of the 15th Feb., 1902. In response to signals from the Gull...
Category: Services
The White Star Cargo Vessel The Bardic
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...