LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Gladys
PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine,...
Sprite
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — On 22nd April, 1939, the coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M. the motor lifeboat Edward Z....
Vierge Marie
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.40 A.M. on the llth January the police reported a wreck under Tregiffian cliffs. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat W. and S.
was...
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
The S.S. Fred
Torbay, Devon.—About seven o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1949, the S.S. Fred, of Piraeus, about a mile off Brixham breakwater, was heard sounding her whistle. Flashing lights were seen. A motor boat put out and the...
The Amethyst
JANUARY 10TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 8.10 in the morning information was received from the pier that a steamer was in danger of grounding in Pegwell Bay, and the motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 8.25. A moderate...
The S.S. Barren Hill
Sheringham, Norfolk. — During the afternoon of the 3rd of May, 1949, a vessel was seen to be stopped about five miles oft shore, and it was thought that she was on Sheringham Shoal. The life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.25, in...
A Rum Do! Lord Stanley
A rum do! Lord Stanley, chairman of the RNLI's Fund Raising Committee, was presented with a cheque for £6,000 at Aberdeen lifeboat station by Mr dune Stewart, district manager of Watsons Rum, as part of the United Rum Merchants/RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Provider (1)
APRIL 27TH - 29TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABERYSTWYTH, CARDIGANSHIRE ; PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE ; AND FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
While the motor fishing vessel Provider was on passage in ballast from Caernarvon to...
Gold Gnome
CROMER OUT FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS Cromer, Norfolk.—At 5.20 in the evening of the 26th of October, 1947, the Palling coastguard reported that the motor vessel Gold Gnome, of London, was flying distress signals off Happis- burgh and the No. 2...