LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amanda, of Coleraine
The Laura, Countess of Antrim, Life-boat, saved 7 men from the brigantine Amanda, of Cole- raine, on the morning of the 3rd October, during a heavy gale from N.W. This was a truly noble service, and tested to the utmost the endurance of the...
Fishing Boats
MONTROSE.—On the 21st August the herring fleet started for the fishing ground in favourable weather; but during the night the wind blew very strongly from the E.S.E., increasing to a moderate gale, while a very heavy sea broke across thebar....
The S.S. Malta
—The s.s. Malta, of Glasgow, 2,017 tons, with passengers and a general cargo from Liverpool for Italy, went ashore at Wheal Castle, about four miles from Senaea, during a dense fog on the evening of the 15th October. Intelligence of the...
Sophia
PALLING. — While a whole gale was blowing from the E.S.E., accompanied by a very heavy sea, on the 5th January, intelligence was received that a vessel had gone ashore about a quarter of a mile from Hasborough, and that the services of the...
The S.S. Ariadne
ALDEBDRGH, SUFFOLK, and HARWICH, ESSEX.—The Aldeburgh No. 2 Life- boat Edward Dresden was launched at 10.30 P.M. on the 19th June in a strong westerly breeze and moderate sea to the assistance of the s.s. Ariadne, of London, ashore on the...
The S.S. Travaylor
TORBAY, PLYMOUTH, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON.—The s.s. Trevaylor, of St. Ives, lost her propeller when off the Eddy- stone on 6th January, in a whole S.S.W.
gale, with a very heavy sea. She sent out an urgent call for help. It was...
The Faroese Motor Vessel Ternan
Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 4.52 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1949, the coastguard reported a message from the Thorshavn radio station that the Faroese motor vessel Ternan needed help twelve miles in an easterly direc- tion from Muckle...
Life-Boat Exhibition
THROUGH the kindness of the organizers of the annual Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, held at Olympia last September, the Institution was given free space for a life-boat exhibit for the fortnight during which the exhibition...
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Flamborough, Yorkshire.—27th December, 1938. At about 11 P.M. the coastguard reported to the life-boat station that three rockets had been seen between Bempton lookout and Speeton coastguard station. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very...
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BRINGING A WOMAN WITH CHILD TO HOSPITAL Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 10.21 in the morning of January 18th, 1947, a doctor at Mid Yell telephoned that he had a woman with child on the island of Fetlar who must be brought to hospital...