LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ramsey Island Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
Melinda Muriel (2)
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
Falcon
On the night of the 14th July the coastguard re- ported flares about three miles N.N.W.
of the look-out. The life-boat's officers were at sea, but a crew was collected and the motor life-boat Lord South- borough (Civil...
Jupiter
On the 8th March, shortly before 1 A.M., signals of distress were shown from the barque Jupiter, of Liverpool, bound from Hamburg to the Tyne in ballast, -which, was ashore on the Sand Bigg, Goswick.
The Grace Darling...
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
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The Travelling Festival
BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...
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Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—30th November. A Government balloon had drifted out to sea, and the life-boats put out, but were recalled, as the balloon was filled with dangerous gas.—Rewards, Newhaven, £16 16s.; Shoreham,...
A Vessel (2)
JANUARY 19TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel had been reported ashore on Tiree Island, but the lifeboat’s help was not needed and the call was cancelled. Her crew were three short, and these places were filled by three naval...
Iverna
The Motor Life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 4.25 P.M.
on the 7th August, on receipt of a telephone message from Overstrand, through the Coastguard, that a small vessel had been disabled off Overstrand with a broken...
John M. (1)
Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...