LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
100 years ago It will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting contained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chairman of the Institution, on behalf of the...
Category: Articles
Four Calls to Steamer
FOR a series of prolonged services extending over more than three days Coxswain Frank Bloom, of Walton and Frinton, has been awarded the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry. The other members of the crew have all been accorded the...
Category: Services
Welcome
On the 12th September a gale from the N. suddenly sprang up. About fifty fishing boats were lying at anchor in the roads, and were in great danger of being driven ashore. Part of their crews had landed with their fish, and as they were...
Fishing Cobles
On the 26th April, at about 9 A.M., several of the fishing-cobles were observed running for the harbour. As a strong breeze was blowing, and the sea had risen very much, it was feared that they might meet with accident in crossing the...
Bristol Packet
PENARTH, SOUTH WALES.—At daylight on the 9th March the Coastguard on duty observed a small vessel ashore in a verydangerous position on Cardiff sands. The wind was blowing strong from the W.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea. The Lifeboat...
Emily
GBOOMSPOBT, Co. DOWN.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 12th February in reply to signals the Life-boat Florence proceeded to the aid of the steamer Emily, of Snnderland, which had stranded on the Bridge's Eeef during a moderate...
Englishman, of Workington & Schooner Lewis Jane, of Drogheda
On the 23rd De- cember the brig Englishman, of Working- ton, and the schooner Louisa Jane, of Drogheda, while running for the river Boyne, became unmanageable through a sudden change of the wind, and drove on the South Bull in a heavy sea....
Rose, of Ipswich
On the night of the 20th December, the Life-boat George Hounsfield, stationed at this place, put off, during a gale from the S.W., in reply to signals of distress, in the shape of burning tar-barrels, from a vessel which proved to be the...
Silver Spray
RYDE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The ketch, Silver Spray, of Lowestoft, laden with machinery and stone, and bound from Guernsey for the North of England, showed signals of distress when about a quarter of a mile E. of Ryde pier, on the night of the 27th...
Aurora
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.—The coastguard having reported that a vessel was burning flares S. of the Head, near the Smithic Sands, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., with a heavy sea, on the 26th January, the Life-boat Matthew Middlewood...