LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fisherman's Appeal
As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Phoenix AX193
OCTOBER 19TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 1.30 in the morning a message came from the naval officer-in-charge at Appledore that phoenix AX193 - one of the concrete caissons used to build the breakwater of the invasion port on...
Baltic and Dagmar, Mermaid, and Schooner Vilfrid
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 27th March the Life-boats Charles Ingleby and Cyclist were taken out three times with the view of assisting vessels which were in danger in a gale of wind backing from E.N.E. to N.E., accompanied by a very high...
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
AT two o'clock in the morning of 14th November, 1901, the Beauchamp, the No. 2 life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, was launched in answer to flares of distress seen from a vessel on the Barber Sands.
A whole gale was blowing...
Category: Articles
Book Corner
• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.
Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ossian
BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—At about 2.30 .A.M. on the 17th January a vessel was sighted coming into the bay.
The weather was foggy, the sea rough and a strong breeze was blowing from the S.S.W. At 3 o'clock she sent up...
The S.S. Yewmount
On 6th December the s.s. Yewmount, of Glasgow, struck some submerged ob- struction off the Longstone Light House, while bound from Methil to Treport, with coal. The master made for the coast and ran her ashore in Alnmouth Bay. Information...
Annie
During the after- noon of the 10th February anxiety was felt for the safety of the motor fishing boat Annie, of Montrose, which had put out for the fishing grounds in the morning and had not returned. A moderate N.E. breeze was blowing, with...
Kate
At 10A.M.
on the llth February a telegram was received stating that a vessel in Red Bay, co. Antrim, was flying signals of distress. The motor Life-boat William and Laura was at once despatched to her assistance,...