LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jessie
St. AGNES, SCILLY.—While a strong breeze from the E.S.E. was blowing on the 28th February, the smack Jessie, of Plymouth, which had lost her main-boom, was seen running into a dangerous position and the Life-boat James and Caroline was...
Whinlather
NEWHAVEN.—The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Michael Henry was informed on the morning of the 12th January that a large ship was ashore at Portobello. He atonce summoned the crew, and at 8.45 the Life-boat was launched. On reaching the vessel she...
Arundel Castle
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—Signals having been fired by the Gorton Light-vessel on the llth February, the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched at about 6.30 P.M., during a moderate gale and a rough sea. As the wind was blowing directly into the...
Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat the Institution has lost a number of friends and workers : Sir Charles Macara, Bt., J.P., Chairman of the St. Anne's-onthe- Sea Branch, and founder of the Lifeboat Saturday Fund ; the Lady...
Category: Obituaries
Sleuth Hound
Two men who had gone out at 1 P.M. on the 23rd June for a few hours' pleasure fishing in the motor boat Sleuth Hound were overtaken by a thick fog. As they did not return it was thought that they had landed somewhere along the coast, but...
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Chili
During foggy weather on 15th February the barque Chili, of Dunkirk, a large vessel of 1,800 tons, carrying a crew of twenty men, became embayed about one mile to the west of the Lizard and was within 150 fathoms of the shore. A messenger...
Britannic
At about 2 P.M. on the 31st October the Coxswain and some of the crew of the Life-boat Samuel Lewis, when fishing near Chapel, observed a barge flying signals of distress.
The men promptly landed and tele- phoned for a...
Eugenie
On the 12th October a vessel was reported to have ran on the Eamon roots.
The crew of the Life-boat Norbury were at once summoned, and at 6 A.M. the boat was on her way to the vessel, which was found to be the Norwegian...
Fishing Boats (7)
WHITBY.—The fishing-fleet were returning on the afternoon of the 6th February, but during their absence the sea on the bar had greatly increased.
The first two boats which arrived crossed with safety; but the third one was...