LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...

4 September: Hunstanton After receiving reports of a narrow boat in difficulty, the volunteer crew of Hunstanton lifeboat were called to investigate. They found onboard a lone sailor and two dogs. When they...

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THE Thirty-eighth Anniversary of this valuable Society was held at the City Terminus Hotel, on Friday, the 20th April, when its old and valued Chairman, Captain the Hon. FRANCIS MAUDE, R.N., presided with unabated...

PORTAFERRY | 12 NOVEMBER 2015
At 12.38pm, the volunteer lifeboat crew at Portaferry launched to the aid of three kayakers caught in force 7 winds and rough seas. When they arrived on scene, the crew found the three kayakers...

The Life-boat was also launched at 9.20 P.M. on the 28th November, in response to signals of distress, and proceeded, in tow of a steam-tug, to the assistance of the brig Olga, of Frederickstadt, and put a pilot on board. It was found that...

The trawler Striver, of Great Yarmouth, was being towed into the harbour by a steam-tug at about 8.45 on the morning of the 25th October, during a N.E. to N.N.E. wind, squally weather, and a heavy sea. When crossing the bar, the tug came...

PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine,...