LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Vessel
ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.—On the night of the 7th April a vessel was seen to take the ground at the north cheek of Eobin Hood's Bay. There was thick haze at the time, a light wind was blowing from the E.S.E., and a heavy sea was...
Nereus
At about 11 o'clock on the following morning the Life-boat again put off to the assistance of the barque Nereus, of Liverpool, bound from Barrow-in-Furness to Queensland with a cargo of steel rails.
Her cargo had...
A Yacht (3)
THREE SAVED FROM YACHT IN GALE Humber, Yorkshire. At six o'clock on the morning of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963,the Spurn Point coastguard told the coxswain superintendent that a yacht on passage from Spurn to Bridlington was overdue....
Depositor
PIEL, LANCASHIRE.—The ship Depositor, of Halifax, N.S., in ballast, was seen in a dangerous position on the foul ground 2J miles S. of Walney lighthouse, on the morning of Sunday, the 26th October.
She had been in tow of a...
A Small Pulling Boat and Ray
Hythe, Kent.—At 10.57 A.M. on the 3rd August, 1938, the coastguard reported that a man had put off from Sandgate in a small pulling boat at 9 A.M. for an hour. He had not returned.
It was assumed that he could not get back....
Pres. Roosevelt (1)
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 10.30 on the morning of the 28th of April, 1958, the coxswain was working at the boathouse when he heard an explosion, which appeared to come from the Dutch coaster Pres. Roosevelt anchored one mile...
Pilgrimage to Fraserburgh
THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Service Boards to Be Hung In a Church
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
Category: Articles
Letters
Lifeboat car? In late September when driving from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, I passed a Triumph saloon car towing a caravan, the car bearing the registration RNL 1 which was condensed to read RNLI. The car also bore an RNLI flag on the...
Category: Correspondence
None (7)
Aith, Shetland.—During the afternoon of the 24th September the island of Papa Stour informed Sandness post office, on the mainland, that doctor was wanted for a sick man on the island. The weather was too bad at that time to allow an...