LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
Category: Songs
Life-Boat Day Results
WE give below a list of the results, so far received, of Life-boat Days which city of London have been held during the Branch financial year which ended on the 30th September. With regard to the London list it should be added that a Day was...
Category: Articles
August (1)
AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...
Category: Services
The Eastbourne Life-Boat Beryl Tollemache Took Out Light Fire-Fighting Gear When the Oil Tanker Sitakund Was Beached on Fire Off Eastbourne In October 1968
The Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache took out light fire-fighting gear when the oil tanker SHakund was beached on fire off Eastbourne in October, 1968.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1884-85
No Wreck Register having been issued this autumn by the BOARD OF TRADE, we are unable, as has been our wont for upwards of thirty years, to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, with a Chart showing the wrecks and...
Category: Articles
Bonne Adele
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, France, bound to that port from Llanelly, with coal, parted her cables and drove ashore about a quarter of a mile west of Hayle Bar during a strong N. gale and heavy sea, at about 3 P.M....
Peter Varkevisser
ABERSOCH.—Signals ot distress were seen in the vicinity of St. Tudwall's Sound and rockets were fired from St.
Tudwall's Lighthouse on the morning of the 13th January. The Life-boatOldham was launched at 6...
Shotton, of West Hartlepool
At 2 A.M. on the 8th February, the steamer Shotton, of West Hartlepool, got on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. A strong breeze at S.E. was blowing, and considerable sea was on.
The Life-boat W. Hopkinson of Brighouse went...
Some Ways of Raising Money
There have been bonds between the police in Wolverhampton and the RNLI since 1863 when Captain Henry Segrave, the Chief Constable of Wolverhampton, was elected honorary secretary of the newly-formed Wolverhampton branch, and over the years...
Category: Donations
Calypso
ENGINE TROUBLE Clovelly, Devon. At 7.15 p.m. on i4th July, 1965, the police reported that a boat had broken down one mile off shore from Higher Sharpnose, about eight miles south of Hartland Point. The life-boat William Cantrell Ashley was...