LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Canton of Scarborough
On the 29th No- vember, the smack Canton, of Scarborough, was observed with signals of distress during a strong wind. The Annie life-boat went off and succeeded in placing the vessel in comparative safety outside St. Andrew's Harbour at...
The S.S. Roumelian & The S.S. Nazaire
At 5.40 P.M. on 15th May the Ventnor Coastguard telephoned Brooke and Yarmouth that the s.s. Roumelian, of Liverpool, bound laden from London to Alexandria, had been in collision with the s.s. St. Nazaire about twenty- four miles S.E. by E....
Crackshot
Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 1st January a vessel was seen to be in distress. She was the cargo steamer Crackshot, of Newcastle, bound with a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-one from the Tyne to London. She had stranded on a...
Model Engineer Exhibition
THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Joybell
Five men left St.
Helier on the 31st March, in a converted ship's life-boat named Joybell, on a pleasure fishing trip to Les Minquiers.
They did not return when expected and some anxiety was felt. Next...
Ella
12th March. The Holy Island motor life-boat was launched at 7 P.M. in a full N.E. gale to go to the help of the lighter Ella, of A* Newcastle. A very heavy sea was breaking right across the bar and the night was very dark and bitterly cold...
Albion
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 22nd June the coxswain saw a yacht, about three and a half miles south of Aldeburgh, hoist a distress signal. A moderate west gale was blowing, and the sea was rough. As the motor life-boat was...
Naming Ceremonies: Lerwick and Dungeness
HRH THE DUKE OF KENT, president of the Institution, visited Shetland for the first time on Tuesday September 12, 1978, when he named Lerwick's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Soldian. A guard was provided by A (Lovat Scouts) Company 2/51...
Category: Inaugurations
James Lay
The steam trawler James Lay, of London, with a crew of fourteen on board, bound for Hull, laden with fish, grounded on Filey Brigg at about 8 A.M. on the 12th January in a thick fog. The sea was smooth. Cobles endeavoured to refloat the...
Ebor Abbey
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and St.
Andrews, Fifeshire.—On the 27th De- cember the steam trawler Ebor Abbey, of Aberdeen, ran aground on the Carr Rocks, Fife Ness, while bound with a crew of nine to Granton for bunker coal.<...