LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emilie, of Swinemunde
Again on the 27th October were the noble life-boat Bradford, and her consort, the steamer Aid, taken out on their mission of mercy. This time it was in response to signals of distress from the barque Emilie, of Swinemunde, which had drifted...
Robert Bruce, of Belfast
— The brig Robert Bruce, of Belfast, while attempting, on the 7th February, to get into Maryport Harbour, fell to leeward and struck the ground to the northward, and although the anchors were let go, she beat up into the surf The sea made a...
Morning Star, of Dublin
The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months pre- viously ; and it was also the first occasion the boat...
Annual Report
At the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Tuesday the 17th day of March, 1863, The Eight Honourable LORD LOVAINE, M.P., P.O., in the Chair, The following Report of the Committee was...
Category: Annual Reports
Cito
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 25th March, at 7 A.M., a man arrived at Caister from Winterton, and reported that a dismasted vessel was lying just outside Hasborough Sand, and that the sea at Winterton was so heavy that the Life-boat there could...
Vigilant
ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M. on the 19th December, the schooner Vigilant, of Dundee, was seen approaching the harbour from the S.W., in a heavy sea and light wind from the S. At about 11 o'clock she was getting close to therocks,...
William, of Liverpool
On the 5th February a very gallant service, which challenged and secured the admiration of the town, was performed by the same valuable Life-boat. It was blowing a fresh gale from the S.S.E., when a vessel which entered the harbour reported...
Inchcolm
The Life-boat William Arthur Millward was called out shortly after nine in the morning on the 21st August to a vessel which had stranded on the Peffer Sands, some miles westward of Dunbar. The Life-boat was promptly launched, not without...
Teesborough
At about 5 P.M. on the 7th | January a message was received stating that the steamer Teesborougli, of Mid- dlesbrough, was ashore about three- quarters of a mile outside the harbour.
As the sea was not very heavy at the...
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...