LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Edith
At 2.15 P.M.
on the 29th September, the Prawle Coastguard telephoned that a man had swum ashore for help from a motor-boat which was in difficulties off Prawle Point. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1851
Moved by Mr. SAMUEL GREGSON, M.P., and seconded by Capt. F. W. BEECHEY, R.N., Board of Trade.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, published, and circulated.
Moved by Capt. REDMAN, one of the Elder...
Category: Meetings
An Evening Hymn. For Those at Sea In Stormy Weather
FOR THOSE AT SEA IN STORMY WEATHER.
" The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; But yet the Lord who dwelleth on high is mightier." Psalm sciiL-v. 5,
THIS night, O Lord, we lift our...
Category: Songs
The American Steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down, while bound from Australia to Glasgow, with about...
Fishing Boats (3)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of March, 1961, the honorary sec- retary noticed three local fishing vessels sheltering in the lee of the Fame...
Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, once again attended the annual general meet- ing of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 2nd April, 1963. The meeting was an...
Category: Meetings
Kings Cross and Athendale
About mid-day on 13th October, the tug King's Cross entered Scrabster Harbour and reported that she had been taking the steamer Athendale, of North Shields, to Glasgow, to be broken up, but that the tow-rope had parted and the steamer...
Madonna
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 9.15 on the evening of the 12th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small boat with three men on board was firing red flares off Rossall Point.
At 9.35 the life-boat Ann Letitia...
The Norwegian Galliot Johanna, of Soon
On the 8th March a vessel was observed running in for the land, and, as it was evident she was em- bayed, there being a heavy sea and strong wind from E.N.E., a steam-tug went out and took her in tow. While crossing the bar the tow-rope...