LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peggy II, and Jean and Barbara
DECEMBER 19TH. - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE. During the afternoon it was thought advisable for the motor life-boat to put out, as the fishing cobles were still at sea.
The sea was slight, but the strong northeasterly breeze was...
Guide
DUNBAR, HADDINGTONSHIRE.—About half-past five on the morning of the '25th March information was received that the schooner Guide, of Faversham, bound for Grangemouth from London with a cargo of pig iron, was ashore on a reef of rocks...
Isabella
On the 24th March the barquentine Isabella, of Swansea, coal - laden, from Sunderland for Southampton, ran into Yarmouth Eoads for shelter in a severe gale from W.S.W. and a very heavy sea, Her two anchors were let go but both chains parted,...
Searcher
Amphibious rescue Eastbourne - South East Division The Director of the RNLI has sent a letter of appreciation to two Eastbourne brothers after an unusual shore-boat service in which their amphibious vehicle helped a fishing boat, while...
An International Life-Boat Organization
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...
Category: Articles
Henry Holman, of Plymouth
On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—This life-boat establishment, which was one organised-some years since by a local society, has been taken into connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION through the kind co-operation of G. B. M. BEATSON, Esq., late...
Category: Articles
July (1)
MEENLARAGH, Co. DONEGAL. At about four in the afternoon of 7th March, 1942, the motor boat Pride of Drumcliffe, with a crew of six men, was returning to the mainland with mails from Tory Island. As she got near the island in Innishbofin Bay,...
Category: Services
Sincerity
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...
North-Western Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds in the North-West of England was held at Blackpool on 17th and 18th June.
Two hundred and thirty-six delegates attended, from forty-four branches and guilds. The delegates were officially...
Category: Meetings