LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spanish Steamer Wrecked at Coverack
ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...
Category: Services
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Matam II
French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had been received from...
Annual Meeting
The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address.
THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- ing of the Governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 2.30...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Museum at Whitby
A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Whitby was the last station at which a pulling...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
Nanta
CAHORE.—It was blowing a heavy storm from the S.E. on the 18th January, when the barque Nanta, of Lussino, bound from Glasgow to Trieste, was observed ashore on the Rusk Bank off the coast of Wexford.
The Life-boat Sir...
Fishing Boats (3)
At about 1 P.M. on the afternoon of the 19th March, the fleet of fishing boats, seventeen in number, which had gone out during the morning, were seen making for the harbour, the tide then being one hour's flood and the sea breaking very...
Medoc
A large vessel was observed on the outer end of St. Patrick's Causeway, about twelve miles from the shore on the 19th November, and two boats from her were seen to be making for the land. It was blowing fresh from the north-west at the...
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...