LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Salvage Regulations
THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is a charitable institution, incorporated by Royal Charter, for the purpose of saving life from shipwreck.
As however a rigid adherence to the precise object of the Institution...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
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United States Life-Saving Service
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
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Lily
The No. 2 Life- boat, British Workman, left this station on the 24th October in stormy weather, and boarded the Lily, a barque laden with timber, which was stranded on the Has- borongh Sands; and, finding her to be deserted, took possession,...
Adalina
Soon after mid- day on the 28th April, during a S.W.
gale accompanied by a rough sea, it was reported that a vessel was ashore on the Goodwins. The Life-boat Brad- ford proceeded to the Sands and found the fishing vessel...
Pacific
MARCH 26TH. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 7.20 in the morning a message was received at Penlee from the coastguard that a vessel 4 1/2 miles south-west of The Lizard needed help. A light north-east wind was blowing. The sea was...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of Jan- uary, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick woman in need of hospital treatment to Scapa pier, because the road from Stromness to Kirkwall...
Gudveig of Oslo
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
Madora, of Yarmouth
On the morn- ing of the 17th November, during a very strong gale from E.N.E., a torch- light was seen burning as a signal of distress from a vessel ashore on the New- come Sand. The life-boat stationed at this place was at once launched, but...
Mary Ellen
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.39 on the night of the 27th of May, 1950, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the Sunk Lightvesset had reported what it thought to be a flare about two miles south-south-east of the...