LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St. Anne's Life-Boat Disaster Fund
ON the night of 9th December, 1886, three Lancashire life-boats, St. Anne's, Southport and Lytham, were launched to the help of the barque Mexico, of Hamburg, which had gone on the sands between Southport and Formby. A gale was blowing,...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
Alice Watts and Gladsy
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the llth January, the Coast- guard reported that a vessel off Gorton was dragging her anchors and driving towards the beach. As the position of the vessel was one of considerable danger, the Life-boat Kentwett was...
Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat's Record Journey
AT the same time that the Aberdeen Motor Life-boat was on her way north from Cowes, up the East Coast, a Pulling and Sailing Life-boat was en- gaged on an equally noteworthy journey down the West Coast of Scotland. This was the Pulling and...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCARBOROUGH.—The Institution has sent a new 37 feet, twelve oared Life-boat •with transporting carriage to this well- known port and watering place, the cost having been provided by HERBERT A. FOSTER, Esq., of Queensbury Works, Bradford, and...
Category: Articles
A Gallant Motor Mechanic
SHORTLY before half-past twelve on the afternoon of the 19th March the Swanage life-boat station received a telephone message from the coastguard that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties oft Southbourne, some eight miles away. A...
Category: Services
Cromer June 20 1986:
Cromer, June 20, 1986: Cromer townspeople donated generously towards Ruby and Arthur Reed II, the station's brand new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, and it was therefore fitting that so many should be there, joined by holidaymakers and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Empire Alfred and Yardcraft 345
DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...
East Coast (1)
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
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NEW BBIGHTON.—The steam-tug Hover came to the New Brighton stage at about 6 P.M. on the 5th October for the Lifeboat, as there was a ship in distress on the Little Burbo Bank. The Stuart Hay Life-boat was at once manned, taken in tow by the...