LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gwalia
Shortly before noon on the 9th January, the schooner Gwalia, of Drogheda, bound from Liverpool with coal, was observed in the Bay showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Life-boat Brother and Sister were at once...
Thelma
The Life- boat Mary Batger was launched shortly after noon on the 19th August to the assistance of the pleasure coble Thelma, of Saltburn, which had put to sea with three persons on board. A N.W. gale suddenly sprang up, making the coble...
The S.S. Loch Ness
MONTKOSE.—Information was received at about 8.15 A.M. on the 5th January that a large steamer was ashore abreast of Kinnaber, about three miles north of Montrose. A strong gale from S. by E.
was blowing, with rain, end...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (The figure* refer to the number* of the Hfe-boatt detailed on the twelve preceding Pages.") A. F. H., 134.
A Lad;, 16.
A Lady, per Manchester Branch,...
Category: Donations
Clarissa
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At six o'clock in the evening of the 12th of April, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic told the coxswain that a vessel was on the West Hoyle Bank. The coxswain told the Formby coastguard and kept watch on her. She made...
A Hundred Years Ago
A new life-boat has been recently stationed at Moelfre, a fishing village, on the north-eastern coast of the island of Anglesey, in lieu of the former life- boat stationed there, which has been removed to replace a worn-out boat at the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Glengoil
MARGATE.—Signals having been shown by the lightships, and by a vessel ashore on the Girdler Sand during a strong S.W.
wind and a moderate sea on the 3rd November, the Quiver, No. 1, Life-boat was launched at about 7.30 P.M....
The S.S. Ossian
, SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.
on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...
The S.S. Skoghaug
STANDING BY FOR 22 HOURS Dunbar, Haddingtonshire.—At 12.24 in the afternoon of January 20th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had run aground on the Black Rocks one mile south-east of Dunbar in a thick fog. The weather was...
Santagata
Walmer, Kent. — At 7.39 in the morning of the 24th of December, 1950, the Deal coastguard reported a message from the Italian motor vessel Santagata that she was aground on the southern part of the Goodwin Sands and in need of help. She was...