LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Victoire
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—The brigantine Victoire, of Irvine, bound thence to Dublin with a cargo of coal, showed signals of distress when about two miles east of Eamsey Harbour on the 26th October.
The wind was blowing from the...
A Pilot Gig
BRIXHAM, DEVON.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 18th January, on the urgent solicitation of a number of experienced master mariners, sailors and seamen, the City of Exeter Life-boat was launched to render assistance to a pilot gig proceeding to put...
Axel
COURTOWN.—It having been reported that a barque was flying signals of distress, the Life-boat Three Sisters put off at 8 A.M. on the 30th September, in strong N.E. breeze and a moderate sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
Hobah
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND. — The ketch.
Hobah, of and for Falmouth, from Glasgow, laden with coal, ran ashore between Ballycormick Point and Groomspoit •whilsttrying to obtain shelter daring stormy weather on the 20th September....
Confiance
The motor Life-boat, James Stevens No. 14, was launched at 2.18 P.M. on the 6th Decem- ber to the assistance of a ketch which was reported in distress off Walton-on- the-Naze. When she arrived alongside she found the vessel was the Dutch...
Kirsty
The motor life-boat Lloyd's was launched at 3 P.M.
on the 19th September, during a whole S.W. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the yacht Kirsty, of Ayr. The yacht was being used by Gaumont British Picture...
A Steam Trawler (1)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—19th January. A steam trawler had run aground, but refloated before the life-boat reached her.—Rewards, £15 6s..
Naming Ceremony at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
LADY MOTTISTONE named a new motor life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 5th September. The new boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type de- scribed on page 194. She is the first motor life-boat to be built with Diesel instead of petrol...
Category: Inaugurations
Jane Douglas
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— The motor life-boat W.R.A. was launched at 12.30 P.M. on the llth December, 1937, to stand by the Beadnell fishing boat Jane Douglas, which, with a crew of three, was returning home. A very heavy sea was...
Pioneer
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1950, the f.shtng coble Pioneer, with a crew of three, was reported missing. Later on she was seen by the coxswain about three miles north of the life-boat station,...