LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Adventure, of Harwick
On the night of the 3rd November, the smack Adventure, of Harwich, ran ashore on the North Sand, near Yarmouth. The Institution's smaller life- boat at that place was quickly launched through a high surf, and succeeded in taking off her...
Fanny
ARKLOW.—The Life-boat Out Pensioner put off at 10 A.M. on the 12th March to the assistance of the schooner Fanny, of and from Liverpool, bound for Africa with a general cargo, which was at anchor near the Porters Rocks, and striking the...
Fishing Boats (1)
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. — The fishing-boats went out at 7.30 A.M., on the 12th February, and at about 10 o'clock were compelled to return, a very heavy sea having sprung up. Four of the boats were assisted by the Life-boat Meliscent,...
Fishing Cobles (1)
.—Six of the cobles belonging to Staithes were en- dangered on the 22nd January when off Saltburn by a sudden gale, and at about 10 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched. She re- mained afloat for about three...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.
It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and...
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New Dawn and Annette
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 7.14 on the evening of the 25th of June, 1958, the Foreland coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was anchored in a dangerous position in heavy seas half a mile south-west of Sandown pier. At 7.26...
Silver Gain
Tynemouth, Northumberland. On the 30th of June, 1958, the life-boat crew and helpers had assembled for the usual Monday evening clean-up of the life- boat and gear. The night was foggy with little wind. At 9.45 shouting was heard coming...
S.S. Jan Van Goyen
JANUARY 9TH. - TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the morning, the senior naval officer telephoned that the S.S. Jan Van Goyen, which had lost both anchors and carried away her windlass, had stood out to sea. She was one of...
The German M.V. Embdena
DOCTOR'S BOLD JUMP MR. D. j. REEVES, the staff coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), a 70-foot steel boat, was told by Hartland Coastguard on 7th November, 1971,...
A Sailing Barge (1)
Southend'on-Sea, Essex.—12th December, 1937. A sailing barge had struck a sunken wreck off Low Way Buoy and sank, but her crew had already left her when the life-boat arrived.—Rewards, £19 10*..