LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
King Ja Ja
About 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th October, whilst a strong northerly gale was blowing, a steamer which proved to be the King Ja Ja, of Swansea, bound from Newcastle to Methil, with a cargo of steam rails, was sighted in a...
Scharhorn
Shorehani Harbour, Sussex. At 1.50 on the afternoon of the 7th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from Niton radio station that two members of the crew of the motor vessel Scharhorn of...
Crackerjack
A SERVICE AND A FALSE ALARM Selsey, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Thursday the 29th August, 1963, the coastguard reported to the assistant honorary secretary that a merchant ship had taken the yacht Crackerjack, of Southampton, with a crew of two,...
A Yacht (2)
Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...
Brothers
The steam drifter Brothers, of Lowestoft, stranded on the north part of Corton Sands when bound for the fishing grounds on the £0th May. A fresh breeze was blowing from S.E. with a moderate sea and the weather was hazy. The Coastguard...
Anchor Shot As Aids to Launching Life-Boats
IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...
Category: Articles
Major Peter Longmore
Major Peter Longmore MC, president of Chichester & District branch. He joined the committee in 1976 and immediately took on the office of chairman until 1991. He was awarded a Silver badge in 1988..
Category: Obituaries
Spider
RYE, SUSSEX. — The yacht Spider, of Ramsgate, brought up at 11.30 P.M. on the 2nd June, about a mile off Camber.
The wind was blowing strongly from the E.N.E., and the vessel was lying too near the shore, so that on the...
A Guinea for a Paper Flag
ON Life-boat Day in Blackheath Village, one of the collectors visited a factory where an auction was being held of the building and plant.
She asked the auctioneer to put up one of her paper flags. This he did, and it was...
Category: Donations
Ross Cormorant
TOO ROUGH At 8.30 a.m. on 9th of April, 1966, the Lloyd's agent told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Cormorant would be in Bridlington Bay at 8.30 p.m. and wished to have a sick man taken off. He had asked for a coble to go,...