LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishguard Gold Medal Service
ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 19th November, 1935.
Sir GODFREY BARING, St., in the chair.
Resolved that Mr. F. J. Terry, M.A., be appointed joint district organizing secretary for Greater London.
Reported ...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
Category: Articles
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 7
AMONG the many busy years of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, 1887 and 1888 were the busiest so far as boat-building and altering existing Life-boats was concerned. In 1887, as will be seen on referring to page 244 of the August...
Category: Articles
The Great International Fisheries Exhibition, 1883
SINCE the great International Exhibition of 1851, promoted by the late lamented and ever-to-be-remembered PRINCE Conr- SORT, and carried to a successful termina- tion under his auspices, there have been many such exhibitions in this and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In March, April and May, 1950. 58 Lives Rescued
DURING March life-boats went out on service 26 times and rescued 4 lives.
REFLOATING A STEAMER Cloughey, Co. Down.— About three o'clock in the morning of the 7th of March, 1950, information was received from the Tara...
Category: Services
East Coast
VELLUM FOR BALLYCOTTON COXSWAIN Ballycotton, and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 6th of November, 1947, Mrs. M. L.
Blake, of Ballycotton picked up a wireless call from the...
Realf (3)
New Brighton, Cheshire; Beaumaris, and Moelfre, Anglesey ; Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire ; and Llandudno, Caernarvonshire.
—25th February. Early in the morning the tanker Realf, of London, which was bound for Liverpool, in...
The S.S. Yousuf Baksh and Rose Marie
FIFTY HOURS AT SEA Walmer, Kent. At 11.55 a.m. on 8th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a fire on board the s.s. Yousuf Baksh of Karachi, in her cargo of jute. Observation was kept on the vessel after...
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...