LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George Brown and Wave
On the 15th of April, at 10 A.M., during a heavy gale at S., the schooner George Brown, of Montrose, bound from Newcastle to that port, was wrecked on the Annat Bank. The No. 1 Life-boat, Mincing Lane, pushed out of the river through a heavy...
Dalton and Waterloo Branch
Waterloo station, of a sort. Dalton and Waterloo branch, newly formed, took advantage of the fact that one of their members. Mr M.
Hollyhead, is secretarv of the Huddersfie/d Society of Model Engineers. Last summer, in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosemary and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that, as the weather was freshening, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing cobles Rosemary and Hilda II which had left the...
Nellie and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 5th of September, 1952, the weather worsened, and anxiety was felt for the safety of the local cobles Nellie and Rachel, which had been at sea since daybreak. At 8.30 the life- boat E.C.J.R....
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
Swan and Harwich
The ketch Swan, of Grimsby, and the barge Harwich, of Harwich, the former carrying a crew of four hands and the latter three hands, stranded about three miles S.S.W.
of Gibraltar Point during a moderate northerly gale and...
Rosa and The Cornucopia
Shortly be- fore noon on the 15th November two fishing-yawls—the Bose and the Cornu- copia—belonging to St. Abbs, were seen from the harbour to be in great danger.
They had gone off fishing at dawn, but during the morning...
Jessie and Mary
AEBEOATH, FOBFARSHIEE.—On the 15th January the fishing-boat Jessie and Mary, of Arbroath, was observed, about two miles distant from the shore, making for the harbour, and as the sea was heavy it was evident that she would encounter...
Spero and Blanche
Wells, Norfolk.—On returning from fishing at 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1949, the life-boat coxswain announced that two fishing boats were still out. The weather had worsened and the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched at...
Betty and Shirley Williamson
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January, 1954.
two local fishing boats were still at sea in worsening weather, and at four o'clock the life-boat E.C.J.K. was launched. There was a heavy sea,...