LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Palmyro
On the 30th December, at 6.30 P.M., signals of distress having been observed, the No. 1 Life-boat went to the Cross Sand, and found the barque. Palmyra, of South Shields, ashore there. Part of her crew had abandoned her in two boats, and the...
Rival
HASBOROUGH.— The ketch Rival, of London, bound there from Newcastle with fire-bricks, went ashore at Ostend, about a mile and a quarter N. of the Hasborough Life-boat Station, during a strong E.N.E.
wind and a thick fog on...
Ellen Vair
CADGWITH AND LIZARD, CORNWALL.— Early on the morning of the 24th May the Cadgwith Life-boat Joseph Armstrong and the Lizard Life-boat Anna Maria were launched and proceeded, under sail and oars, to the assistance of the schooner Ellen Vair,...
Eliza Bell
HOLYHEAD.—A telegram was received at 8.50 A.M. on the 6th September, reporting a vessel in distress half a mile from the South Stack. The signal for the Lifeboat was at once fired, and in seven minutes the Thomas Fielden was launched, and...
Reaper
MOELFRE.—The schooner .Reaper, of Dublin, bound from. Wicklow for Garstoo, with a cargo of pit-wood, was caught in a gale from the S.W. on the morning of the 25th January, and was driven on the Dulas rocks. The Life-boat Star of Hope put off...
Dinas
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.—The smack Dinas, of and from Carnarvon for Ehosneigir, in ballast, with a crew of two men, was driven on the rocks in a heavy seaand a moderate S.S.W. wind on the 13th October. Six men put off in a shoreboat to her...
Wrecked at Great Yarmouth
The drifter Olive, of Banff, which went ashore on 19th October, 1933, after striking the North Pier. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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St. Mary's, Scilly.—The motor lifeboat Cunard was launched at 3.50 P.M.
on the 26th July, as the Bishop Rock lighthouse was making flag and rocket signals, but, owing to the misty weather, the flags could not be read. A...
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P.
Lieut.-Col. Sir John Collie, C.M.G., M.D., J.P., the distinguished physician and the authority on malingering, died on 3rd April at the age of seventy-five.
He had been a member of the committee of management since April,...
Category: Obituaries
Martaban, of Cardiff
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — On the evening of the 31st August the police reported, through the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, that a small yacht was in distress off Lavernock Point. She was the motor cruiser Martaban, of Cardiff, with...