LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Anstruther - Mersey class Kingdom of Fife The picturesque Fife harbour of Anstruther basked in glorious sunshine on 29 May 1992 for the launch of the station's new lifeboat Kingdom of Fife by HRH The Duchess of...
Category: Inaugurations
Viking, of Sunderland
On the 2nd April, during a strong gale from the .W., and in a tremendous sea, the barque Viking, of Sunderland, went ashore n Harlyn Bay, near this place. The City of Bristol Life-boat, Albert Edward, was ;aken on its carriage to the bay and...
Highland Chief, of London & Tavestock, of Plymouth
Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...
Angora, of Bangor & Trafalgar, of Cley
On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on that station, the Birmingham,...
Eclipse
FBASEBBUKGH.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 25th of October the schooner Eclipse, of Dundee, bound from Suaderland to Little Ferry with coal, showed signals of distress while riding in the bay. The Cosmo and Charles Life-boat proceeded to her...
Providence
NORTH BERWICK, HADDINGTONSHIRE.
—A telegram from Anstruther was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat at North Berwick stating that a fishingboatfishingboat was in great danger off that place, and that the Life-boat...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the Committee of this Fund was held ; on the 20th ultimo, and was presided j over by the Right Hon. Sir RALPH II. [ KNOX, K.C.B. Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon. Secretary, reported that, not- withstanding...
Category: Meetings
Twilight
The lugger Twilight, of Inverness, when bound on the night of 4th October to Lowestoft for the herring fishing, stranded on the South Scroby Sands. There was a strong N.N.E. breeze with a heavy sea at the time, and their signals of distress...
Magpie
On the afternoon of the 24th September the life-boat coxswain saw a small yacht crossing the Outer Sand. A strong S.S.E. gale was making, with a heavy sea and rain squalls. The coxswain kept watch on the yacht. He saw a sail carried away by...
Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin (1)
Arklow, and Wicklow, Co. Wicklow.— At 6.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1953, the Valentia Radio Station told the Arklow life-boat station that the French trawlers Petite Micheline and Vers le Destin had wirelessed that they had...