LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer (1)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
Alice
On the morning of the 30th September, information by telephone was received stating that the services of the Life-boat were needed by a boat in danger at Winterton Ness. A strong gale was then blowing from S.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy...
The Tone Vale Lodge,
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thom
DROGHEDA.—On the 11th May, at about 11.30 A.M., a vessel was reported to be in distress outside the Bar. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, John Rutter Qhorley, were assembled, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible and proceeded out...
A Ship
BALLYW ALTER, Go. DOWN.—On the 11tb.
March, at midnight, signals of distress were shown from a ship ashore on the Long Bock opposite Ballywalter, and in response thereto the Life-boat Admiral Henry Meynett was promptly...
Mina
The Life-boat and steam-tug also proceeded out at 6.15 A.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Mina, of Kalmar, Sweden, bound from Shields to St. Vincent with coal, which had gone ashore on the Brake Sand during a fresh E.S.E....
Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A.
Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.I.N.A., was for many years Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution. He died at his home in Glasgow on 13th January, 1965, shortly after reaching his looth birthday. When the first experiments with motor...
Category: Obituaries
Militence
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1958, the coastguard told the hon- orary secretary that a doctor was needed to examine a badly injured member of the crew of the coaster Militence of Rochester, whose...
Commader
At 9 P.M. on the 27th January a messenger reported that a vessel was ashore on a dangerous reef at Rotheeholm Head. Owing to the darkness and the S. by E. gale which was ragingj it was not possible to learn any further particulars about the...
Mauranger
At 4.30 A.M. on the 25th April the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was launched to the assistance of a vessel apparently on the Cross Sand. On the arrival of the boat they found the vessel was the steamer North Gwalia, of London, laden -with...