LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thompson, of Whitby
On the 4th January, at 9 A.M., the brig Thompsons, of Whitby, in endeavouring to get into the harbour at Scarborough, missed the entrance and was driven on shore, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward at the time. The Scarborough...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 21st August, 1936.
PAID £20,695 3s. 4d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
George William
Crab boat swamped THE KLAXON at the boathouse of Cromer's D class inflatable lifeboat was set off by Great Yarmouth Coastguard at 1213 on Friday May 1, 1981. "and the station honorary secretary and lifeboat crew, going immediately...
The S.S. Whinstone, of Preston (1)
ON 25th November, just before eight o'clock in the morning, the Donna Nook Life-boat went out in answer to signals of distress. The conditions could not i She found the Whinstone at anchor, after have been worse. A whole gale was I...
Yacht Veruna
In mode- rate but hazy weather in the afternoon of the 5th March the steam yacht Varuna, of New York, stranded on the edge of the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.40 P.M.
the haze lifted, and the Coastguard on watch observed the vessel...
Our Inland Branches
Ix the last number of this Journal attention was drawn to the valuable co-operation of the Man- chester Branch, and the important services rendered to the Life-boat cause in that city, resulting, as was shown, in the presentation of...
Category: Articles
Alcmaria
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 9.43 on the night of the 4th of February, 1957,/the Walney coastguard telephoned that the trawler Dean Swift had wirelessed that the steam trawler Alcmaria, of Lowestoft, with a crew of ten, needed help seven miles...
Two Fishing Boats
After a severe storm which was experienced here on the 24th August had somewhat abated, about 200 of the fishing-boats put to sea, but at nightfall a gale of much violence came on from the N.N.W., and those of the crews who had not cast...
Wreck and Rescue In the Bristol Channel
Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel by Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 305.) tells in the first of two volumes the story of the English life- boats in those waters.
Of the life-boat stations detailed in...
Category: Articles
The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding to the Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April, 1908
The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding To The Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April 1908. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs