LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pontfield (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 9.57 A.M. the coastguard reported that the after part of the tanker Pontfield, in tow of a tug, was making heavy weather off the port. On 15th September the Pontfield had struck a mine off Cromer and...
Our Shingle Beaches
THOSE of our readers who have visited the watering-places and the Life-boat Stations of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION on the south and south-east coasts of England cannot but have noticed with interest the vast quantity of shingle which...
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Polydesa
On the 18th November, this life-boat again went off during a fresh wind to the Norwegian schooner Polydesa, which had stranded on the shoal of the Cross Sand, during a fresh wind from N.N.E. The life-boat, with the help of a steam-tug, suc-...
Nimrod
The barqueNimrod, of Liverpool, was seen to be burning flares on the Holm Sand at 7.30 P.M. on the 18th November, during a gale of wind from the S. and a high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched, proceeded to...
Fishing Boats (2)
CULLERCOATS.—The Co-operator No. 1 Life-boat put off at 9 o'clock, on the morning of the 14th February, to the assistance of several fishing-boats which had been overtaken by a high sea. The Life-boat remained near the bar until 2...
Ellizer
KILMORE, oo. WEXFORD.—On the 21st February, the Life-boat John Robert was launched at 8 A.M., proceeded to the assistance of the Norwegian barque Ellizer bound from Belize for Fleetwood, with cargo of logwood, which had stranded on...
A Grand Bit of Service
THE Gorleston Life-boat, the Marie Lane, which has such a magnificent record of fine work, added another page to her illustrious annals by the service rendered in connexion with the wreck of the schooner Dart, of Jersey, on the 29th March...
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Obituary
SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat was published, the Institution has lost by death a number of its friends and workers, among them Sir Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Leeds Branch, Colonel Cornish, for many years HonorarySecretary of the...
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Having It Both Ways
THE District Organizing Secretary in the North of England reports that he recently had an interview with a prominent Newcastle shipowner who made various criticisms of the Institution, the principal one being that it never published its...
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Anastassios Pateras (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; Cloughey, and Newcastle, Co. Down.—At 11.15 A.M., on the 17th November, 1937, the Clogher Head motor life-boat Mary Ann Blunt was launched in an easterly gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, to search for a vessel...