LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Boat from a Trawler
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
Nicolaou Virginia (1)
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL SHIPWRECK INSTITUTION held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 22nd day of April, 1852, REAR-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, PRESIDENT, in the Chair, The following Report of the...
Category: Annual Reports
Nelson
DECEMBER 5TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.10 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Warden Point that a vessel two miles to the north-east was burning flares. A westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 8.25 A.M. the...
Tarascon
Salcombe, Devonshire.— The motor trawler Tarascon, of Boulogne, ran on to the rocks in Steeple Cove at about 10 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1938. Her wireless was put out of order when she struck, and she had no rockets. There was a very heavy...
Francis Mary, of Inverkeithing
The same life-boat also performed a noble service on the 2nd December, in saving at great risk the crew, consisting of 3 men, of the sloop Frances Mary, of Inverkeithing, which vessel became a total wreck on the Eedcar Eocks during a strong...
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEGUARDS Thanks on Vellum Lifeguard Mirk John ion lor his 'courage, determination in heavy surf conditions ar d professional efficiency ' Chiel Executive's LeTter of Thanks Lifeguard Alan Wheeler for tus 'courage,...
Category: Services
Albion
On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has sent to Ar- drossan, on the west coast of Scotland, a new and larger boat, fitted with two drop keels, in the place of the one stationed there a few years since. The new boat is 37...
Category: Articles
Ceres, of Lyme
On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.
on the 19th, the...