LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Blanche
— About 11 P.M. on the 23rd February signals indicating a vessel in distress were ! observed from the Langness Light- house. The Life-boat Thomas Black ; was launched, and on reaching Langness i Point found the steamer Sarah Blanche, ; of...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Again on the 20th January the Staithes fishing-cobles went out to their usual fishing-ground. During the day the sea became very strong, with heavy snowshowers, and when the boats returned at about 4 P.M. they found it was impossible to land...
Some Ways of Raising Money
Although there was a damp and misty start to the day it did not deter about 5,000 people from joining in the fun at last autumn's annual Hartlepool harbour fete, which is organised by the local branch and its many friends. The highlight...
Category: Donations
Methodist Sunday School Interest
THE lesson proposed for the senior department of Methodist Sunday schools for Sunday the 18th of August was devoted to the work of the Institution. The notes issued on the senior course gave a brief account of the organisation of the service...
Category: Articles
Dawn
NORTH DEAL, KENT.—About 10.30 P.M. the Coastguard informed the Coxswain that flares were being burnt in the direction of the Brake Sand. He immediately summoned the crew, launched the Life-boat Mary Somerville, and proceeded to the spot...
Chums
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Category: Advertisement
A Ketch
The Coxswain of the Life-boat Brittan Willis was informed at 9 P.M. on the 1st September that a ketch was drifting on to the rocks on the north side of Lough Foyle, at a place called the Warren. He at once assembled the crew, and the...
Maria Natividad
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 8.5 in the morning of the 29th of September, 1951, Valentia Radio reported that a man was adrift in a ship's boat off the Bull Rock Lighthouse, and the life- boat A.E.D. was launched at 8.20. A south-easterly gale...
Rival
PALLING.—Soon after midnight on the 28th May, while a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing and a heavy sea running,a vessel was reported to have stranded on the beach at Waxham, two and a half miles southward of the Falling Life-boat station. The...
Callum Cille
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 12th of February, 1954, the Kilchomaii coastguard re- ported that the fishing boat Callum Cille, of Oban, which had a crew of three, had run on a reef off the north shore of Loch Tarbert...