LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

BEIGHTON.—The Edbert BaiJces Lifeboat was launched at 5.10 P.M., on the 21st of October, signals having been shown by the fishing-smack Volant, of Dover.

The wind was blowing from the S.S.W.; the weather was thick and the...

THE records of Life-boat families which have been appearing in The Lifeboat show how strong a part the influence of heredity plays in the manning of the Institution's boats. It is of interest, too, to record that the new Honorary...

A telephone mes- sage was received about 9.15 A.M. on the 13th November, stating that a small yacht was riding off Winspit, about a mile to the east of St. Alban's Head, with a man on board and that the Life- boat was wanted. A whole N...

The steamer Bluff, of Durban, bound from Grimsby to South Africa, where she was intended for the fishing trade, stranded on the Cross R'idge, in hazy weather, on the 5th March, and at 5.50 the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched to...

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on the 8th January information was received that the master of the barquen- tine Malpas Belle, of Truro, which had been beached during the previous day at Littlestone in a leaking condition, had remained on...

Whilst the Life-boats Givil Service No. 4 and Charles and Susanna-Stephens were returning to their stations on the 20th April, after rendering assistance to the steamer Asia, further signals were made by the Light-vessels, and a barque was...

At 9 P.M. on the 8th January signals of distress were seen from a vessel in the vicinity of the Bell Buoy, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched. The ketch Comet, of Barn- staple, loaded with a cargo of coal, and bound...

the fish- ing fleet of cobles were at sea on the morning of the 16th March a gale of wind suddenly sprang up from the north and backed into the north-east.

The boats at once made for the harbour, but some of them being to...