LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Ship’s Boats from the S.S. Enseign Marie Saint-Germain
FEBRUARY 22ND. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard asked for the life-boat’s services for a vessel off the East Cross Sand Buoy, six miles east of Caister, and the motor life-boat Michael Stephens was...
An Aeroplane (69)
AU G U S T 2 N D . - G O U R D O N , K I N CARDINESHIRE. A German bomber hadbeen shot down by S.S. Highlander, one of two which she brought down, but no trace of the crew could be found. - Rewards, £20 11s. 6d..
The Wreck Register and Chart of 1859
IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...
Category: Articles
Mr. Harold Cowie, S.S.C.
MR. HAROLD COWIE, s.s.c., a former member of the Committee of Management, died on the loth December, 1963.
Mr. Cowie served on the Committee of Management from 1949 until his resignation a few months before he died. He was...
Category: Obituaries
The Record Month by Month
Vessels Lives Number Lives which Lives Rescued of Rescued Life-boats Rescued by 1945 Life-boat by Saved or by Auxiliary Launches Life-boats Helped Shore-boats Rescueto Save boats January . . 63 100 6 4 - February . . 53 22 6 5 - March . . 43...
Category: Annual Reports
693
DECEMBER 20TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.5 in the afternoon the Ramsey coastguard reported that they had received information of a vessel in distress. Ten minutes later the position was given as Castletown Bay, and five minutes...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th Oct., 1870: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Meetings
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1871
THE Wreck Register for 1871 was issued by the Board of Trade on Oct. 14, and is, as usual, a very complete and ex-haustive document. It is supplemented, in the usual way, by most interesting charts, which have greatly helped us to analyze...
Category: Annual Reports
Reminiscences of the Coast and Depot
AFTER twenty-seven years with the Institution it is brought home to me more than ever that the great majority of the people of these islands have a dash of the salt of the sea in their veins. For twelve years, as an in- spector on the coast,...
Category: Articles