LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Fund was held on the 16th ultimo, and was presided over by Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that the Fund continued to receive...
Category: Meetings
Herald
Flares were observed by the Coastguard watchman at 3.30 A.M. on the llth February, from a vessel apparently ashore on the West Barnard Sands. There was a strong S.S.W. wind blowing, and a heavy sea was running, while the weather was bitterly...
Fishing Cobles
Con- siderable excitement was caused on the morning of the 16th March in the village of Newbiggin owing to fifteen of the cobles belonging to the port having been overtaken by bad weather when at sea. The boats went off fishing at about 5...
Brilliant
POOLE.—The barque Brilliant, of Grimstadt, while on a voyage from Cuba to Bremen with a cargo of cedar logs, went aground on the Hook Sands, at the mouth of Poole harbour, in a heavy gale from S.E. by E. and a very high sea on the 12th...
Eleanor
FISHING-BOAT REFLOATED Barrow, Lancashire.—At about 2.45 in the morning of the 22nd of October, 1947, the Walney Island coastguard reported flares to the south of Hilpsford Point, and at 3.10 the motor life-boat N.T. was launched. The...
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
A Sea Otter Aeroplane
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...
Life-Boat Days In 1948
IN 1947 the Institution held 859 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,154,000, and the sum given was £87,920.
That was 42 more days than in 1947, but the number who gave fell by nearly 400,000 and the sum...
Category: Donations
Hatano and Nogi
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 16-17th August, sixteen men belonging to the trawlers Hatano and Nogi were rescued.—Rewards, Bronze medals, vellums and monetary awards amounting to £40 15s. (For a full account of this...
Mayflower (1)
Holyfaead, Anglesey.—On the 26th of October, 1949, the life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the Liverpool steamer Mayflower.—Rewards, bronze medal and £14 10*. (For a fuU account of the service, see page 380)..