LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Suffolk, of London,
LlZARD AND CADGWITH. The S.S. Suffolk, of London, 2,900 tons, bound from Baltimore for London, with a cargo of flour, tobacco, &c., and having a large number of cattle on board, struck the rocks at the Lizard Head during a dense fog at 4...
Falke
At 7.20 A.M. on the llth January rockets were observed in the direction of the Cross Sand light- vessel, and while the crew of the Life- boat were being assembled, a message was received by wireless telegraphy stating that a vessel was...
A Boat (1)
LONG SEARCH FOR UNLIT BOAT Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.10 on the evening of Tuesday the 20th of August, 1963, what appeared to be burning material was seen a number of times about half a mile off shore and two...
"Life-Boat Saturday."
FULL many a tongue and full many a pen Has told of the praise of the Life-boat men.
Their daring deeds are their country's boast, From the Shetland Isles to the Cornish coast; From treacherous quicksand and sunken rock...
Category: Poetry
The Greek Brig Marietta
At 4 a.m., on the 19th October, the Greek brig Mari- etta, from Lisbon, for Cardiff, in ballast, ran ashore on some rocks in Tramore Bay.
One of the crew, at great peril to himself, plunged into the surf with a line, and...
The Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, on the 12th ultimo, presided over by Mr. C. G. TURNER, Controller-General of la- land Revenue, it was reported by Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the Hon....
Category: Meetings
Mr. Philip Nicholls
Mr. Philip NichoIIs, ex-Coxswain of the Penzance Life-boat, died on January 30th at the age of 75. He was con- nected with the Penzance Life-boat for over 30 years, becoming a member of the Crew in 1871. He was appointed Second Coxswain in...
Category: Obituaries
Alderman J. G. Oldfield, J.P., of Whitehaven
ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
Category: Obituaries
Unity
— The motor life-boat J. and W. put out at 10.40 A.M. on the 12th March, in a moderate N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, to search for the motor fishing boat Unity, which had been reported to be in distress with an engine breakdown about seven...
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, of Anstruther
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, joint honorary secretary of the Anstruther life-boat station, died on 3rd November. He had been associated with its work for forty-seven years, and his father and he had been its honorary secretaries since it was...
Category: Obituaries