LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the Thirty-first Annual Meeting of I the Committee of this Fund, held on the 19th January, and presided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, C.B., Controller- General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that...
Category: Meetings
A H.M. Trawler
NOVEMBER 25TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. A H.M. trawler had been reported in need of help, but while searching for her the life-boat was recalled by wireless as her services were not needed.- Rewards, £18 14s..
Hiskilina
At daybreak on the 16th December a schooner was observed in distress be- tween one and two miles off Stonehaven Bay. The weather for three days had been very stormy, with high seas running, and it was feared that she would become a total...
Aighai and Mistley
JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....
Cygnet, of Workington
On the after- noon of the 4th January, a small schooner, called the Cygnet, of Workington, with a j cargo of slates, was making this harbour j when she struck on the North Bank, and j afterwards drifted behind the North Pier. | It was...
The S.S. Florence
On 9th December, 1915, the s.s. Florence, of Stockton, whilst bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of oil stranded on the "Middle Binks." It was a very dark night and blowing a strong gale, with a terrible sea running over...
John Lee
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched at 8.30 A.M.
on the 7th of February, and rendered assistance to the schooner John Lee, of and for Blakeney, from Shields, with a cargo of oilcake, which had...
Obituary
THE Institution has lost a number of friends and workers during the past few months. It is hoped to give some account of their work for the Institution in the next issue of The Lifeboat..
Category: Obituaries
None (5)
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—4th October, 1939. Distress signals had been re- ported but nothing could be found.
The life-boat was out for fifteen hours.
—Rewards, £21 165..
A Yacht
Plymouth, Devon. — 9th April. A yacht was overdue, and the life-boat searched for her, but could not find her, as she had no lights. The owner sent a letter of thanks and a donation.— Rewards, £9 Is..