LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Colleen
GREENORE, Co. LOUTH.—The schooner yacht Colleen, of Leith, lost one of her anchors and had the other disabled in a very heavy squall on the 27th August, and stranded about fifty yards W. of the Earl Kock, in Carlingford Lough. In response to...
The S.S. Hansa
Boulmer, Northumberland. — Early on the morning of the 20th March the lights of a vessel were seen through the haze to the S.E. of Boulmer. Shortly afterwards she struck the rocks at Boulmer Steel, and made signals of distress. A freshening...
The S.S. Moorlands
ASHORE IN DENSE FOG Holy Island, Northumberland.—-At 9.22 in the morning of the 31st of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her siren, and the motor life-boat Gertrude was launched at 9.43 in a light northerly...
Traquair
Caister, Norfolk. —At 5.20 in the morning, on the 22nd of November1950, the Great Yarmouth coastguard reported that a vessel seemed to be in distress and aground on Scroby Elbow to the south-east. At 5.30 the life-boat Jose...
A Camouflaged Motor Launch
JANUARY 13TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A small vessel had been reported bumping on the rocks, but she was a camouflaged motor launch dropping depth charges while tracking an enemy submarine, and the life-boat was not...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1900.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 14th September, 1899.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat West Wind
No. 2 Life-boat Area (Southern Scotland, North West England and Isle of Man) EX-LIFE-BOAT SUMMONS LIFE-BOAT AN old ex-R.N.L.I, pulling and sailing life-boat now named West Wind caused the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat Herbert Leigh, which is...
A Great Life-Boat Worker
By the death on September iyth. of Mrs. Edith Astley Roberts, President of the Eastbourne Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Institution has lost one of the most devoted and successful honorary workers whom it has ever had. The Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...