LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Olinka
KINGSTOWN.—On the 25th January, at 9.30 A.M., a vessel was observed on the outside of the Kish Bank, about two miles distant from the Kish Lightship. The coxswain of the Kingstown Life-boat Princess Royal at once called for volunteers to man...
Cramond Isle and Rodull
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 9.3 on the night of the 8th of January, 1949, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the engine of the outward bound Hull trawler Cramond Isle had broken down, that the trawler was leaking badly, and that, although...
Lady Stuart
RHYL, NORTH WALES.—On the night of the 11th December, while the wind was blowing a gale from the N.N.W., the schooner Lady Stuart, of Chester, was lying to off Point Lynas under reefed sails, and eventually drifted with the flood-tide and...
Sunderland Boat and Lifting Gear Perspective Diagram
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
Category: Articles
Mary, of Liverpool
About 2 o'clock on the 7th March, at which time it was blowing hard from the E., with a heavy sea, the schooner Mary, of Liverpool, bound from Maryport Eostrevor, struck on the South Bull near the mouth of the Boyne. The No. 2 Life-boat...
Ann
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 24th March the schooner Ann, of Colchester, was seen about 6 A.M. making for Hartlepool, apparently in distress. When she was within about 2 miles of the harbour the No. 3 Life-boat John Clay Barlow put off to her, and...
Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper
Similar service was rendered on the 10th December by the Life-boat to the crews, numbering in all eighteen men, of the schooners Caroline, Seaward, Phoenician, and Reaper. A very severe gale from the W.N.W. had suddenly sprung up, causing a...
Resolue
PETERHEAD.—At 5.30 P.M., on the llth September, The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat put off, during a gale from the W.S.W., to the assistance of the schooner Resolue, of Lossiemouth, bound from Shetland for Sunderland in ballast, which...
Leader, of Harwich
On the 4th February the smack Leader, of Harwich, was wrecked off Thorpeness in a very heavy sea. The Ips- wich life-boat was soon launched and taken alongside the vessel. All the crew had abandoned her except the master, and had been picked...