LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Terukuni Maru
NOV. 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 12.5 2 P.M. the Japanese steamer Terukuni Maru, of Tokio, bound for London, was sunk by enemy action about one and a half miles E. of the north-east Gunfleet Buoy. A light easterly breeze was...
A Landing Craft
JANUARY 16TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received from the flag officer, Humber, through the coastguard, that there had been an explosion on a landing craft four and a half miles east of...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1939
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on May 23rd. The amount raised was £8,132, an increase of £1,734 on 1938 and the largest sum for over twenty years.
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Category: Branches
Sunshine
PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 11th April, signals of distress were observed in the direction, of Seotstonhead, -whereupon the People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out, and found the schooner Sunshine, of Wick, stranded on the...
Golden Island
HOLYHEAD.—During a heavy gale from the W., at 9 A.M. on the 14th October, signals of distress were reported to have been shown by two or three vessels anchored in dangerous positions in the bay. The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched, but...
Carthagena
At about 1 P.M. on the 19th November guns were heard in the direction of the Cross Sand. The wind was blowing a moderate breeze from the W.S.W., the sea was moderate and the weather was very thick. A yawl put off and sailed to the sand where...
Snowdrop
SCARBOROUGH.—The coxswain of the Life-boat Queensbury having been informed that some fishing cobles were in danger, the Life-boat was launched at 4.45 A.M. on the 25th April, while a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., accompanied by a...
Standard
About noon on tbo Gth August, during a strong W.N.W. gale and rough sea, the Coastguard reported that the ketch Standard, of Fowey, was dragging her anchors and was in danger on a lee shore in Dublin Bay. The Life-boat Dimleary was promptly...
Duke of Abercorn
The pas- senger steamer Duke of Abercorn, of Dublin, when returning from Bray Regatta on the evening of the 10th August stranded in a dense fog on the south-west corner of Dalkey Island.
The information of the accident was...
Volant
On the 5th April a whole easterly gale, accompanied by snow and sleet showers, swept the North Sea and caused a very rough sea off Harwich. The steam Life-boat City of Glasgow was called out in the morning to a small steamer, but she managed...