LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Inverpool
Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire. — On Sunday, the 3rd of December, 1950, the S.S. Inverpool, of London, a tanker of 600 tons laden with oil fuel, ran on a sandbank on the south side of the River Ribble. At 4.4 in the afternoon the Formby...
A Yacht (2)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.20 p.m. on 23rd July, 1966, a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties in Dublin bay. There was a fresh westerly breeze with a choppy sea. The life-boat Dunleary II proceeded at 8.35 on an ebbing tide. She...
The 12-Feet Sailing Boat Pandora and Henrietta
Moelfre, Anglesey. — In the after- noon of the 21st of June, 1952, a strong wind had suddenly sprung up, and at 1.30 a sailing boat was seen to be drifting towards Dulas Island. The life-boat G.W. was launched at 2.15.
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Book Review
The Norfolk Coast is the title of a little book by Neville Long which is published by Geoffrey Dibb Ltd., of Brundall, Norfolk, price 6s. 5d. including postage. Mr. Long, who is up to date with his facts, writes: 'So these chapters have...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Fort Perrot
JULY 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 2.25 in the morning the coastguard reported that shouts had been heard off Dungeness Point by a coastal battery. Later the lifeboat was asked to put out by the Royal Naval shore signal station, and at 4.15...
Martell Cognac
M" Jl ¥ j Fv¥5v¥f ¥" JkMTJEJLJL The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was...
Category: Advertisement
Aline II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 11.43 on the night of the 10th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht without lights was drifting on the strong ebb tide. There was a strong south-south- easterly...
None (3)
BABY BORN IN LIFE-BOAT HOUSE Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At eleven o'clock on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be used to take an expectant mother to the Galway Regional...
List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1900
Name of Donor or Testator. The late Mr. George Wooflndin
Amount of Gift or Legacy. 630
Date received. 1895
Object. For a George Woofndin Life-boat
How carried out....
Category: Donations
John Wesley
HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of...