LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting, 1911
THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B., IN THE CHAIR.
1. Annual Report.
Speaker— The Eight Hon. the EARL OF DERBY, G.C.V.O., C.B.
Honorary Secretaries, Treasurers, and...
Category: Meetings
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Testing tow at Port St MaryWhen the Trent class Cough Ritchie II Launched, all that the crew knew was that a fishing boat was in trouble about 20 miles south east of Port St Mary in the Isle of Man. When they discovered that it was the large...
Category: Services
Telegraphic Communication With Lightships
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
Category: Articles
St Bannock, of Bideford
The Oxfordshire life-boat at Looe re- mained alongside the schooner St. Brannoch, of Bideford, which vessel had stranded near Maymean, near Looe Island. Ulti- mately the vessel was got off and taken into harbour, the life-boat assisting on...
Dasher, of Amlwch
On the 21st April, the schooner Dasher, of Amlwch, went on shore near St. Patrick's Causeway, during a fresh gale of wind. The Ellen life-boat put oft' twice, and on the second occasion was able to assist the vessel safely into...
Lady Mary
IRVINE.—On the 6th October the schooner Lady Mary, of Irvine, went ashore near the entrance of that harbour, in a strong south-westerly gale, and hoisting signals of distress, the Life-boat, the Isabella Frew, proceeded to her through aheavy...
Messenger
ST. DAVID'S, PEMBROKESHIRE.—On the 15th October, at about 1 P.M., the Augusta Life-boat was launched, it having been reported that the brigantine Messenger, of Exeter, bound from Teignmotzth to Buncorn with a cargo of clay, had had all...
Matilda
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 20th January the Herbert Ingram Life-boat rendered some assistance to the brig Matilda, of Gothenburg. Two of the Life-boatmen were put on board the vessel and assisted in taking her to Lynn..
Henning
On the 6th April, at 4.30 A.M., during a moderate N.E. wind, signal guns were fired from the Gull Lightship. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded under sail to the North Sand Head and found a barque ashore on the North-east part of the...
TheAustrian Steamer Bathori
On. Sunday, the 5th December, at 7.10 A.M. the Life-boat Civil Service No. 3 was launched, a mounted messenger having arrived with intelligence that a vessel was showing signals of distress in Larbrax Bay, six miles N. of Port...