LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White Heather
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 5.40 on the evening of the 15th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that the salvage vessel White Heather needed help near the old wreck of the Demetrius off Redcar. At 6.10 the fife-boat City of Leeds...
A Boat (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 8 p.m. on 18th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a flare had been sighted one and a half miles south of South Shields pier. The life-boat Tynesider was launched at 8.5 in a...
Henry Harvey
On the 25th March the Life-boat was launched at 8.40 P.M., and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Henry Harvey, of Hayle, bound from Runcorn for Lelant with coal, which while endeavouring to make the harbour at Penzance in a...
Gallant and Humane Conduct of Swedes and Norse-Men
DURING the autumn of the year 1852, a year that will long be remembered as one of the most fatal on record to the shipping of this country) the unprecedented number of 1115 wrecks having occurred along the shores and within the seas of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Accidents
THE disaster which befell the Kingstown No. 2 Life-boat on the 24th December, 1895, naturally turns people's thoughts to the subject of Life-boat accidents.
Although the proportion of accidents to the launching of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boatman Overboard
A Rescue at Portrush.
A VIOLENT westerly gale, with gusts at 70 miles an hour, swept across the British Isles on 19th October, 1935, with loss of life and great damage to property ashore and afloat. Twelve life-boats were...
Category: Services
Gratitude for the Service to the "Rohilla"
IT is just eleven years since the service to the Hospital Ship Rohilla, wrecked ofi Whitby on 30th October, 1914. It will be remembered how the Whitby No. 2 Boat, although badly damaged, made two journeys to the wreck, rescuing five women...
Category: Donations
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
Category: Articles
The Beachmen's "Shod."
HALF-A-MILE from the village, close to the verge of a cliff more remarkable for its fossiliferous deposits than for height, a little wooden hut, built of wreck- timber and roofed with red tiles, stands exposed to the full fury of every storm...
Category: Articles
Lauton
Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...