LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Woolgast
On the 29th Decem- ber, the brig Wodgast, of Woolgast, Prussia, was observed in distress near the South Scarr Rocks, during stormy weather. The Caroline life-boat was quickly launched, and succeeded in getting the vessel out of her perilous...
Kate
WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...
Queen Louise
At 2 P.M. on the 6th May, the steamer Queen Louise, of Glasgow, carrying a crew of twenty-nine persons, stranded oi\ the rocks half a mile south of Seaham. There was a moderate N.E. wind blowing with a heavy ground swell, and this prevented...
Loango
On the 7th May a strong gale was blowing from E.S.E., and several vessels sheltering in the Bay were seen to be riding heavily to their anchors. Shortly before 2 P.M.
one of the schooners began to drag her anchors, and her...
Marie Emilie Andrea
.—At about 3 P.M. on the 26th December a schooner in the Caldy Roads, which had been slowly dragging her anchors all the morning, got into a very dangerous position, and was seen to make signals of distress. The Life-boat William 'and...
Life-Boat Essay Competition
The Mayor of Gosport presenting the Challenge Shield for the South-West of England to Miss Barbara Bull, of Lees Girls' School, Gosport, who won the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
South-Western District Conference
A CONFERENCE of branches and guilds from seven counties in the South West of England—Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Oxford- shire and East Somerset—was held at Southampton on the 13th June,...
Category: Meetings
Esterel
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—On the 14th October, 1939, the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. rescued three lives from the barge Esterel, of London.—Rewards: silver and bronze medals, vellums, and £37 16s.
(A full account was...
Dorothy of Poole
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.20 on the evening of the 3rd July, 1961, thehonorary secretary received a message from the observation post at the range at Lydd that a small cabin cruiser was burning red flares a mile off Jury...
A Seahawk Aircraft (1)
Buckle, Whitehills, Banffshire; and Cromarty, Cromartyshire. —• At one o'clock on the morning of the 5th of September, 1956, the Peterhead coastguard telephoned that a Sea- hawk aircraft wras missing on a flight from Lossiemouth. The...