LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helder
APRIL 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly before 6 A.M. a Kingsdown boatman reported that a steamer was ashore in Old Stairs Bay, Kingsdown. There were patches of fog, with a light south-westerly wind blowing and a smooth sea. The motor life-boat...
A Life-Boat Christmas
ON the evening of Sunday the 23rd of December, last, a choir of over twenty voices, and a harmonium, gathered on the deck and in the cockpit of the Eastbourne life-boat Beryl Tollemache in her boat-house, and over the life- boat's radio...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: JUNE 1994 Miss Sheila Barrie, who together with her late sister Moira jointly funded the D class lifeboat Charlie B formerly stationed at Tenby.
Jack Downing, president of...
Category: Obituaries
None
Tyne's inflatable used to transfer sick woman through surf to lifeboat Commodore George Cooper, the RNLI's Chief of Operations, has written to congratulate Coxswain/mechanic Robert Erskine and his crew for 'a fine team effort...
Gretafield (2)
FEBRUARY 4TH . - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported the much lamented death on the 2nd instant of His Grace ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth DUKE...
Category: Committee
Ino, of West Hartlepool
On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.
It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...
Catherina Regina
The brig Catherina Regina, of Riga, went ashore in Druridge Bay during very stormy weather on the morning of the 7th December. On information of the occurrence being received at the Life-boat Station, the boat was conveyed on her carriage to...
Samarang
BEBCAB, YOBKSHIEE, — The barque Samammg, of Newcastle, timber laden from Quebec, was reported ashore about a mile south of Marske daring aN. wind and a heavy sea at 6 A.M. on the 10th October.
The Surion-on-Trent Life-boat...
Ellen Beatrice
At half an hour after mid- night on the 14th November, in reply to signals of distress shown from the schooner Ellen Beatrice, of Aberystwith, bound from Swansea to Dover, the Life-boat Wolver- hampt&n launched from its station, and...