LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Georg, of Kiel
AUGUST 6TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The motor tanker Georg, of Kiel, had been forced by bad weather and trouble with her engine to leave a convoy and seek shelter, but she was able to repair the engine and go on her way....
Services of Life-Boats
YOUHGHAL, IRELAND.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Services
Mary Ann, of Whitby
On the 1st December, the coxswain of the North Briton life-boat, and 6 other men, with 2 horses, proceeded at midnight along the coast upwards of fcrar miles in the direction of Gramthorpe Haven, and there found a schooner on the sands, and...
Ward Jackson, of Carnarvon
On the 25th Feb- ruary the schooner Ward Jackson, of Car- narvon, from Wales to Montrose, was wrecked on the Abertay Sands, Dundee.
A heavy gale from N.E., with, snow and a tremendous sea, made the task of rescuing her crew...
Spring Comes Early to the Isles of Scilly and on March 4 St.Mary's Town Hall Was a Blaze of Colour for the Ladies' Guild Annual Flower Show: Mrs Mary West Chairman I
Spring comes early to the Isles of Scilly and on March 4, St Mary's town hall was a blaze of colour for the ladies' guild annual flower show: Mrs Mary West, chairman, is seen with some of the many varieties of daffodil shown,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Sept. 6, 1855. Captain LAM- BERT PERROTT in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, and Correspondence, and the Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Constantia, of Bremen
The same life-boat and two steam-tugs also succeeded, with much difficulty, in rescuing the ship Constantia, of Bremen, and her crew1 of 26 men, that vessel having grounded on the Goodwin Sands, in a heavy gale of wind, with heavy snow-...
William Cale and Motor Fishing Boat Delight
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the coastguard tele- phoned that a message had been received from the trawler William Cale, of London, that her trawl gear had fouled her propeller...
Notes of the Quarter
IN a world in which good news tends more and more to be excluded from the front pages of newspapers, it is gratifying to be able to record that the R.N.L.I.'s record last year was one of consistent and outstanding success. The number of...
Category: Articles
Chaften Winkle, of Aalborg
The life-boat and the steamer also went out on the evening of the 14th January, in reply to signals and rockets fired from the Gull light-ship, during very threatening weather.
On speaking the light-vessel, the men were...