LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Ship Maria Asumpta (1)
Three lifeboats search for survivors from wrecked sailing ship Lifeboats from three stations were involved in the search for survivors when the 137-year-old sailing ship Maria Asumpta foundered after running ashore on the rocky North...
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock
Miss Sally-Anne Smith's grandparents, Mr and Mrs Broom, handing over a tin of half-pennies to Captain C. E. Mock, honorary secretary of the Mumbles lifeboat station, watched by Cosxwain Derek Scott, B.EM.
by courtesy of...
Category: Correspondence
Guiding Star
WHITBURN.—The Life-boat William and Charles was launched at 11.30 p.m.
on the 1st June and landed a man from the coble Guiding Star. Whilst he was out attending to his crab-pots, a heavy sea rose and he was in considerable...
Ramsgate Crew Honoured
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Thomas Cooper, of the Ramsgate life-boat, for saving a yacht and four people at the entrance to Ramsgate harbour. Vellum service certificates have also been...
Category: Services
A Yacht
On passage A YACHT IN DIFFICULTY in gale force winds, 12.4 miles bearing 015°M from Llandudno lifeboat station, was reported to the honorary secretary by HM Coastguard at 1610 on Thursday, August 4.
RFA White Rover was...
Contributions from Shipping on the Tyne. The Value of the Personal Appeal
As showing what can be done by systematic and personal appeals on behalf of the Life-boat Service to the captains and crews of ships, we should like to call attention to the most successful work at Tynemouth of Mr.
Godfrey...
Category: Donations
Coxswain C. A. Johnson
Four coxswains whose outstanding acts of gallantry were recognised by the award of medals died during the past year. Among them was the holder of an exceptional number of medals, COXSWAIN CHARLES AMBROSE (JOE) JOHNSON, who joined the crew of...
Category: Obituaries
Valldemosa
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
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Category: Advertisement
Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy
The local fishing cobles Civil Joyce, Hellier, Blue Bird and Dorothy put to sea at 7 A.M. to haul lines which had been shot overnight.
The weather was fair. By 11 A.M. a north gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...