LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...

AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...

The medallists: (I. to r.) Coxswain/Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald, Stornoway; Coxswain/ Mechanic Ian Johnson, Troon; Coxswain/Mechanic Charles Howry, Sheerness; Helmsman Roger Trigg, Southwold; Helmsman Alan Coster, Lymington; Helmsman Frank... - View image in PDF

LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...

THURSDAY, 1st June, 1911. j The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., ; in the Chair.

Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting. ! Also read those of -the Building, Finance j and Correspondence, Wreck and...

HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....

WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.

A strong gale was blowing...

ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...