LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Evening Star
At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found...
Orange Blossom
At about 4 A.M. on the 19th March, the Mincing Lane Life-boat was launched to the aid of the smack Orange Blossom, of Jersey, which was making for the harbour during a strong gale accompanied by snow storms and a very heavy sea.
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Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morning and early afternoon of the 27th January the weather was very bad, and only one coble, the Pilot Me, took the risk of going out. When she was seen returning a very heavy sea was running into the harbour,...
A lifesaving foundation
The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.0 in the evening, on the 25th of June, 1951, the Kildonan coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy was reported in difficulties and drifting two miles south-west of Whiting Bay. At 6.17 the life-boat Sir David...
Flying Foam
NEWCASTLE, Co. DOWN.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th of April a messenger arrived from Murlogh and reported that a vessel, which subsequently proved to be the ship Flying Foam, of Liverpool, bound from that port to Quebec, with salt and iron ballast,...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
Jeune Prosper and Plymouth, and French Lugger St. Clement
PADSTOW.—About 8 o'clock on the morning of the 20th February, the schooner Jeune Prosper, bound from Swansea to Bordeaux, was seen running before a strong N.W. gale for Padstow Harbour. The Lifeboat Albert Edward was launched as speedily...
H.M.S. Barcombe
Islay, Hebrides. At 9.40 on the night of the 13th of January, 1958, the the Kilchoman coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Bar- combe was aground on Oronsay. At 10.5 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a slight sea...
Viucennes
At 9 A.M. on the 25th March, a three-masted barque was observed on the Codling Bank, and the Motor Life-boat Robert TheopMlus Garden was dispatched to her assistance.
Owing to the fact that the Life-boat had to proceed in...