LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Zosteria, of London
On the 20th March, the brig Zosteria, from London to Hartle- pool, in ballast, was observed in distress off this place while it was blowing a strong gale from E.N.E., accompanied by heavy rain. The Parsee life-boat was at once taken along...
Agenaria, of Bideford
On the 30th of December last, at 3-30 p.m., the schooner Agenaria, of Bideford, when running in a crippled state for the harbour of Tenby, during a strong S.E. gale, broached-to, and was driven on shore on the south side of the port. The...
Annarchy
In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
Rescue of Life By Swimming, and Experiments Thereon
RESCUE OF LIFE BY SWIMMING, AND EXPERIMENTS THEREON.
THE accompanying Paper is translated from some interesting remarks published, under authority, by M. FERRAND, druggist and Member of the Lyons Board of Health. He...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboats: Handing-Over Ceremonies at Crimdon Dene Hartlepool and Little and Broad Haven
SPRING, AND A NEW SEASON of inshore lifeboat service was given a fine start by the dedication of three boat generously given to the Institution by its friends: an Atlantic 21 for Hartlepool and D class ILBs for Crimond Dene and Little and...
Category: Inaugurations
R.A.F. Rescue Launch No. 164
MARCH 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 6.25 P.M . the Hoylake coastguard reported a motor boat in difficulties on Burbo Bank, and the No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and Mary Robinson left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. A moderate S.E. wind was...
Ella (2)
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
None (5)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of January, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life- boat would take a sick woman to Scapa, who needed hospital treatment in Kirkwall, as the road to Kirkwall from Stromness...
Our Nautical Aptitudes
AT the dispersion of the children of Israel in the land of Canaan, it had been predicted by Moses that Zebulon would dwell upon the coast, and suck of the abundance of the seas. Thus the tribe of Zebulon became a purely mercantile and...
Category: Articles