LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Viking, of Sunderland
On the 2nd April, during a strong gale from the .W., and in a tremendous sea, the barque Viking, of Sunderland, went ashore n Harlyn Bay, near this place. The City of Bristol Life-boat, Albert Edward, was ;aken on its carriage to the bay and...
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
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Life-Boat Carriages
A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...
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City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...
Ellwood
On the 7th November, the schooner Ell-wood, of Dublin, bound from Wicklow to Gaston with a cargo of timber, also got into difficulties when in the outer roads Holyhead Bay. In response to her signals the Duke of Northumberland put off and...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
FOE the sixth year running the fishwives of CuIIercoats have held their collection for the Institution on the occasion of the August road exercise and Launch I of the Life-boat in Whitley Bay, and | although, for the first time, they have...
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A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.33 on the after- noon of the 21st of September, 1959, the watchman on the east pier told the honorary secretary that a girl was adrift in a canoe in Pegwell Bay some distance from the shore. Eight minutes later the...
A Lighter (1)
Hartlepool, Durham.—17th February, 1938. A lighter had been seen to sink, but her crew were rescued by the tug which had had her in tow. Mr. J. S.
Wood, honorary secretary, went in the life-boat.—Rewards, £6...
Comanche
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 8.5 a.m. on 26th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the catamaran Comanche had requested assistance as she was drifting towards Orfordness, dragging her anchor. The life-boat Alfred and...
Fishing Cobles (1)
During the morn- ing of the 14th May an E.N.E. wind increased to a strong gale, and this, in the face of a strong ebb tide, caused a heavy sea at the harbour bar. As the fishing fleet was at sea, and the crossing could only be made at...