LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alnwick
RAMSGATE.—The schooner Alnwick, of Beaumaris, bound from London for Workington with cement, ran for the harbour from the Downs for shelter while a strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, on the evening of the 5th October, but missed the entrance and...
Award for Scottish Skipper
Mr. Neil Speed, the skipper of the motor fishing vessel Moira, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of 10 people from the motor yacht Quesada on the night of 22nd/23rd May,...
Category: Services
Motor Fishing Boats
Montrose, Angus.—Retween eight and nine on the morning of the 27th August the wind increased to a strong S.S.E.
gale. In the face of a strong ebb tide this set up a heavy sea on the bar, and made the entrance into harbour...
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An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Douro
On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request of the master she remained...
Nostalgia Direct
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Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PLYMOUTH.—A life-boat establishment in connection with the Institution has been recently founded at Plymouth, and a splendid boat on the self-righting principle, rowing 7 oars, single-banked, the cost of the same having been presented by...
Category: Articles
A Vessel
On the 14th January, during a gale of wind from the N.W., a vessel was seen making for Wex- ford Harbour with ensign flying half-mast high. At the entrance of the harbour the vessel missed stays, and her only remain- ing anchor was let go;...
Sirenia
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...