LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
ON a former occasion we brought to the notice of our readers Mr. LACON'S improved plan for lowering boats, intended to prevent the recurrence of such lamentable accidents and fearful loss of life as had then recently taken place in the...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Three men were rescued on the 12th January in a strong southerly gale by the Life-boat Sarah Brooshfft, Kirk Ella, after having passed the night on a beacon on a rock upwards of three miles from the shore.
It appeared that...
William Humphries
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—10th January.
On the night of the 9/10th January a man in Tenby picked up a wireless call for help from the steam trawler William Humphries, of Milford.
This message, which...
United States Life-Saving Service
THERE were 272 stations embraced in the Life-saving Establishment of the United States at the close of the fiscal year which terminated on the 30th June, 1902. Of this number 195 were situated on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60 on the...
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Sailfin
TRAWLER PULLED CLEAR Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.15 a-m- °n 20th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Sailfin of North Shields had grounded on Newcombe Sands. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
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Rising tide RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Silloth lifeboat station at 1255 on Thursday February 11 that a man was stuck in the salmon nets at Dornock, two miles east of the River Annan, on the north side of the Solway...
"Pirates" Help the Life-Boats at Brightlingsea
Pirates Help The Life-Boats at Brightlingsea. - View image in PDF
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Mrs. Edgar Horne Naming the "Prudential."
Mrs Edgar Horne Naming The "Prudential". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bringing Back the Life-Boat (1)
Bringing Back The Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs