LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Excel
WITHERNSEA, YORKSHIRE.—Information was received, at 6 A.M. on the 14th August, that the smack Excel, of Grimsby, was on shore off Waxholme Mill. The Admiral Rom Life-boat was launched, but was driven back by the heavy surf. After...
Claremont
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The steamer Claremont, of Newcastle, was wrecked at Whale Chine, Isle of Wight, on the 27th January. Intelligence of the wreck was received at the Brighstone Grange Life-boat Station, and at about 11.40 P.M...
John Wesley
HARTLEPOOL.—Shortly before 4 o'clock on the morning of the 23rd September, while a gale from the S.S.E. was blowing, accompanied by a very heavy sea, the brigantine John, Wesley, of Seaham, bound from Seaham to London with a cargo of...
General Cathcart
PORT PATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.—The schooner, General Cathcart, of and for Ballywalter, from Maryport, coal laden, was observed in distress during a strong gale from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on 15th August. The crew of the Life-boat Civil...
A Double Gift
MEN of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, from Shorncliffe Camp, took part, as launchers, in a life-boat service at Hythe on the afternoon of 28th July, when the motor life-boat went out to the help of the yacht Leonora Minnie,...
Category: Donations
Claxfield
At 7.30 P.M. on the 14th March the shore attendant telephoned that a pinnace from a Portuguese ship was ashore west of the pier. When the life-boat's crew arrived at the pier head to man the life-boat they found that the pin- nace was...
Moonbeam
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th September a party of three men and two women left Fleetwood in the motor yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine trouble developed, and the Moonbeam ran ashore on the North Lighthouse bank at the entrance to...
Fishing Cobles
The motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 29th July, as four fishing cobles were out and a moderate gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The life-boat found the first coble about two and a half...
Shirley Williamson
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.40 in the afternoon on the 22nd of December 1949, the wife of the owner of the motor fishing boat Shirley Williamson picked up a radio distress call from her hus- band's boat. It was about eight miles...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 2.55 in the afternoon of the 15th of February, 1950, the Medical Officer of Health telephoned asking if the life-boat could fetch from Fair Isle a woman suffering from appendicitis. As no other suit- able boat...