LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fluid Compasses
ITS our last January Number we gave a short account and illustration of the Boat's Fluid Compass, adopted by this Institution, and in this Number we insert an interesting paper on the " Mariner's Compass," with which we...
Category: Articles
Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Life-boat Christmas Card and the Life-boat Calendar for 1933 are now ready.
The Calendar.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a painting by Mr. William McDowell, showing the New...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat House Wembley
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal...
Category: Articles
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (1)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (2)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Winona and H.M. Trawler Commander Holbrook
NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
Pet, of Chester
Thurso.
Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March the news reached Thurso that a schooner, the Pet, of Chester, had gone ashore on the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five miles away. The night was foggy and very dark, with a...
Island Maid and Angele
On the after- noon of 12th November, two vessels, the schooner Island Maid, of Belfast, and the brigantine Angele, of Brest, while endeavouring to enter Padstow Harbour, in a strong "W.N.W. gale accompanied by a heavy sea, struck on the...