LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gwalia
Shortly before noon on the 9th January, the schooner Gwalia, of Drogheda, bound from Liverpool with coal, was observed in the Bay showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Brother and Sister were at once...
Annie
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL. — At about 5.10 P.M., on the 17th June, the Coastguard reported that a vessel about four miles N. of Towan Head was in need of assistance. A strong breeze from N. was then blowing, the sea was moderate and the weather...
Victoria
Dover, Kent.—At 1.14 in the after- noon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties five miles south-south-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. The life-boat Southern...
Fishermen Return Rewards.
Five fishermen of Silloth, Cumberland, as they came back from their fishing, saw an aeroplane crash in the sea, went to its help, and rescued the airmen.
The Institution sent them rewards, but they returned them, saying:...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 2nd June, 1853. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, M.P., in the Chair.
Confirmed Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Reported the death, on the...
Category: Committee
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Diana
On the 26th De- cember, 1860, the brigantine -Owit^ of Fredeficfcshamn, from Bordeaux, laden wtft wteat and brandy, struck on a reef of fockd in Ardmore Bay, the wind blowing & gale from S.E. The Ardmore life-boat was soon manned by a...
A British Aeroplane (1)
MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
The S.S. Amulet
At 7 A.M.
on the 3rd December, intelligence was treceived that a large vessel was ashore in Druridge Bay. The crew of the Algernon and Eleanor Life-boat were at once called together, horses were sent for, and the Life-boat...