LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Alcester and Spartan
Shortly after 2 A.M. on the 18th February the ketch Lord Aleester, of London, and the ketch Spartan, of Montrose, collided about one and a half miles to the E.S.E.
of Palling. The No. 2 Life-boat Hearts I of Oak was...
A Tug and Lighter
The No. 1 Life-boat Eliza Harriet was called out shortly before 1 P.M. on the 18th December to the assistance of a tug and lighter, which were flying signals of distress.
Both vessels were in trouble, and a moderate N.N.E....
Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
Category: Articles
Duskie Maid and Restango
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 14th October, the Coxswain, who was near the harbour, saw a fishing boat making for the entrance.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing with a heavy swell, and the river Girvan, which...
Gloaming, Miseltoe and Victory
On the 2nd January, while the fishing fleet was at sea, the wind freshened and most of the boats ran for harbour, but three of them—Gloaming, Miseltoe and Victory —which were farther out than the rest, stayed to try and get up their...
Brethren and Gratitude
The fishing fleet put to sea early on the morning of the 7th April. Later the sea got up, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Jacob and Rachel Vallentine was launched at 11.25 A.M., to the help of three small motor cobles which had not...
Isabella and Nina
On the morning of the 20th June the coast- guard reported that a small local fishing boat, the Isabella and Nina, with one man on board, was fishing south of Dundonnie Head, and as a strong gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...
Frame and Skin
The first skin of mahogany being put over the framework of rock elm and oak on the 41-feet Beach type of motor life-boat stationed at Dungeness. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Procure and Quest
During the afternoon of the 5th November the sea increased rapidly, and when the motor fishing yawls Procure and Quest, of Banff, inward bound, appeared in the bay, it was breaking very heavily across the harbour bar. A moderate S.S.E....
Livonia and Bon Espoir
Selsey, Sussex.—On the morning of the 18th July the coastguard reported a small steamer in distress about eight miles in a north-westerly direction from Selsey look-out. Half a gale was blowing from the S.W., and the sea was rough. The motor...