LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Children's Book Recommended
Miss Mary F. Moore has managed to convey a remarkable amount of valuable information about life-boats, coastguards, lighthouses and light-ves- sels in a very easily readable form in her Life-boats and Lifesaving (Macmillan,...
Category: Articles
Chester
The sloop Chester- field, of Lynn, whilst bound to Hull, laden with gravel, stranded on the Inner Sinks on the 9th September.
Coxswain Cross immediately assembled his crew and proceeded to the vessel in the boarding...
Past and Present
25 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1970 At the RNLJ's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards in 1970 the then Chairman, Admiral Woods, referred to the recent formation of the Yachtsman's Lifeboat Supporters Association -...
Category: Articles
Donna Maria
RAMSGATE.—On the 30th July, signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship.
The Vulcan steam-tug and Bradford No. 2 Life-boat were manned as quickly as possible,, and proceeded direct for a vessel which was observed ashore...
Clifton, of Gloucester
Early in the morning of the 12th March, the schooner Clifton, of Glou- cester, ran ashore on the south side of the bar at the entrance to Bideford harbour, the wind blowing hard from the west at the time. At daylight the crew, 6 in number,...
The Adventure, the George Evans, the Supply, and B. F. Nash
On the 23rd February the gale which had been the cause of the wrecks previously noted shifted to the N.E., and increased in fury, setting up a terrible sea in Fishguard Bay. At about an hour after midnight of 22-23rd, signals of distress...
Barbadian
On the 6th December intelligence was received at Wexford that a large vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank.
The weather was very thick at the time, with a strong wind and heavy sea. The Wexford large life-boat at...
Soudan
CAISTER, NORFOLK, and GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.— On the afternoon of the 7th November, during hazy weather, signal guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Lightship off the coast of Norfolk, in response to which the Gorleston Life-boat Mark Lane was...
A Boat (1)
BLOWN ON TO REEF Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 4.18 p.m.
on 3rd May, 1964, the South Gare lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with a crew of two had been blown on to a slag reef about a quarter of...
Westward
HAD BROKEN DOWN Troon, Ayrshire. At 7.27 p.m. on 5th May, 1964, the Kildonan coastguard told the life-boat coxswain of a Lamlash police report that a small boat was in difficulties 200 yards north of Holy Isle buoy. The life-boat Glencoe,...