LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rap
On the evening of the 4th October the steamer Bap, of Lillesand, Norway, when making for Stornoway for coal, struck the Chicken Rock and was beached in Branahuie Bay. The master of the steamer proceeded on the morning of the 5th idem to...
Union-Castle Line
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A Vampire Aircraft (1)
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
The S.S. Governor
DECEMBER 6TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported a steamer drifting in the Queens Channel, but not in need of help at that time. A heavy westerly gale was blowing, with a wild and confused sea, and the...
The S.S. Hellopse
At 10.30 A.M.
on the 21st December a large steamer was observed, on her beam ends, trying to work into the bay. A very heavy ground sea was running, and a gale blowing from the south-west. A steam trawler was standing by...
Awards to Honorary Workers
DURING February, March, and April, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other Honorary Workers, in recognition of their services on behalf of the Institution :— To Miss FLOBENCE EDWARDS, in...
Category: Awards
Enterprise
The coastguard on duty havingobserved a schooner part her cable, and drift towards the heavy breakers in the S.E. part of the bay on the 9th February, during a N. by W. wind, a very rough sea, and heavy storms of snow and hail, the crew of...
Roseneath
ST. ANDREWS, N.B.—The Ladies' Own Life-boat put off on the morning of the 16th November to the assistance of the schooner Roseneath, of Hull, which was near the breakers on the sandbanks off St. Andrews during a strong E. gale and very...
Fishing Cobles (1)
On the 1st March the Life-boat was again launched to the help of distressed fishing-boats. Between twenty and thirty of them were out when a strong gale sprang up from the S. by E., with a rough sea, and they all returned with the exception...
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 7th of November, 1948, the local fishing boat Courage, with a crew of five, was overtaken by bad •weather. The sea was rough in the bay and at the harbour entrance, and when, just before noon...