LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pindos
The four- masted barque Pindos, of Hamburg, carrying a crew of twenty-eight hands, put into Falmouth for orders when homeward bound from Chili with a cargo of nitrate, and shortly after noon on the 10th February again left that port in tow...
The English and Welsh Grounds Lightvessel
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. — At five o'clock on the morning of the 30th of November, 1954, the Walton Bay signal station rang up to say that the English and Welsh Grounds lightvessel had parted one of her cables and needed help. Seven...
Zestoria
On the 27th November, at 9 P.M., signals were shown by a vessel in Lowestoft North Roads. The No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out in tow of a steam-tug, and brought ashore the crew of 5 men from the schooner Zestoria, of Colchester, which vessel...
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...
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The S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool
MAY 12TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Kilmichael Point look-out that the S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool, had gone ashore on the mainland south of Pass Head, while bound laden with coal...
Centenary Publications and Souvenirs
" Britain's Life-boats : The Story of a Century of Heroic Service." By Major A. J. DAWSON, with an Introduction by H.R.H. the PBI.VCE OF WALES, K.Gr., President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, and a Fore- word by...
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Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (4)
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The S.S. Bodil
The s.s. Bodll, of Esbjerg, was totally wrecked on the ! Haisborough Sands on the 27th May whilst bound from Sweden to South- | ampton with a cargo of timber. A i strong N.E. breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. A...
Mary
ST. IVES, CORNWALL.—On the morning of the 20th July, the pilot-cutter Mary, of Bristol, was seen riding in a dangerous position, while a strong gale was blowing from the N. accompanied by a heavy sea.
Every movement of...
Dixie
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...