LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Strachan, of Peterhead. He has been coxswain since 1922, and during those fourteen years the Peterhead life- boat has rescued 104 lives. Coxswain Strachan was awarded the silver medal of the...
Category: Articles
A Schooner (1)
A message was received from the Coast- guard at 6 P.M. on 18th May that a schooner anchored in St. Bride's Bay about two miles off shore, was flying a distress signal. The crew of the Life-boat General Farrell were assembled but a...
Birkenau
On the 18th October the German steamer Birkenau, of Bremerhaven, while bound in ballast from Antwerp to Methil, was caught in a strong northerly gale, with very heavy seas, and driven on to the rocks at Chapel Point, some miles east of...
Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
The Norwegian Life-Boat Society. (From the Yorkshire Post, 15th June, 1898.)
IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
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Sir George Shee
ALL associated with the life-boat service will have heard with the greatest regret of the death at Worthing, on the 29th November, 1939, at the age of 69, of Sir George Shee, late secretary of the Institution.
Sir George...
Category: Obituaries
Meetings of Committee
6th May. THOMAS WILSON, Esq., in the Chair.
Confirmed the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Institution, held on the 22nd April; also of the previous monthly Meeting, and of the Finance, Wreck, and Reward...
Category: Committee
Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1951, the coxswain reported that the local hshing coble Hilda II was off Red Cliff and making for Scarborough in bad weather. It would have been dangerous for her to enter...