LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1877
HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next page for this...
Category: Meetings
The Women of Holy Island. A Fine Launch and a Silver Medal Service
ON Sunday, the 15th January, a south-easterly gale was blowing, with blinding snow-storms. A heavy sea was breaking on Holy Island, and the j weather was bitterly cold. Just before eight o'clock in the evening a...
Category: Medals
Iron Duke
CAISTER.—At about 3 A.M. on the 1st November, signals of distress were ob-served, and the Life-boat Covent Garden put off. She proceeded in the direction of the signals, across the Scroby Sand, and found the fishing smack Iron Duke, of...
Princess May
At 6 A.M. on the 4th February a telephone message was received stating that a ship was burning flares as a signal of distress close to the headland. With all haste the No. 2 Life-boat Matthew Middleuood was launched and proceeded to her.<...
Providence
The ketch Providence, of Goole, bound from Hull to Wells with a cargo of oil cake, parted her anchors during a strong N.N.E.
gale when off the bar, on the 1st April.
Signals of distress were hoisted, and...
Harry
.—At 2.45 A.M., on the 13th March, the Coast- guard reported by telegram that flares were being burnt off Porthcurnow, close to the shore. The Life-boat Ann Newbon was launched, and when near Porth- curnow they observed a flare. They ...
Lonsdale
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave was called by a boatman in the early morning of the 2nd May, as the South Goodwin Light-vessel was firing signals. He at once proceeded to the beach, and seeing a large ship in dangerous...
Arctic
Daring very thick weather, on the 23rd March, intelligence was received that a fishing-boat was aground on the N. side of the bar. A moderate gale was blowing from S.S.W., and the sea was rough. At 4.30 P.M., the Life-boat Andrew Pickard...
Two Whitby Cobles, the Mary Alice and the Tranquil
WHITBY.— Two Whitby cobles, the Mary Alice and the Tranquil, which were returning from the fishing-ground in a light wind and a strong sea on the 12th March, were seen in the offing, and as it was evident that they would run considerable...
The S.S. Mona
At 11.40 P.M. on the 26th December a message was received reporting that the Nore Light-vessel was firing signals of distress.
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was launched without loss of time, and in the neighbourhood of...