LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ocean Pearl
HOWTH, co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 succeeded in saving the ketch Ocean Pearl, of Wexford, and her crew of three hands on the 13th February. Shortly after 10 A.M. a message was received telephone that a vessel was drifting...
Paula Bertha
About 8 A.M.
on the 1st September the Coastguard gave information to the Coxswain of the No. 1 Life-boat, Samuel Plimsoll, that a vessel was aground on the Holm Sand.
He promptly mustered his crew, and...
Industry
At 8.30 P.M.
on the 27th February a message was received from the Coastguard at Mundesley stating that a vessel was burning flares continually off" that place.
The Life-boat Louisa Heartwell was...
Charming Nancy
A few minutes after 8 P.M. on the 29th August the Coastguard on duty reported signals of distress on the West Hoyle Bank, and the Life-boat Hannah Fawsett Bennett was promptly launched. She proceeded to the Bank where she found the sloop...
Berthe Marie
Shortly before noon on the 7th December the coastguard reported that a schooner, anchored about three quarters of a mile from the shore, had parted one of her cables and was driving towards the land. The crew of the Life-boat Eichard and...
Fishing Cobles (2)
Exciting scenes were witnessed at Scarborough on the 13th December, when the Life-boat Queensbury was launched to the assist- ance of some fishing cobles. "When the cobles put to sea the weather was moderately fine, but as the morning...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
Paul
This service to the Hamburg was quickly followed by a service to another German sailing ship, also of Hamburg, the four-masted pole-rigged ship Paul, This service took place the following day Jon the Welsh coast. The ship, which was on her...
A "Greater London" Motor Life-Boat. Gift from the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
THE Motor Life-boat of the Ramsgate type, which was sent to Southend-on- Sea last May, is to be a gift from the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, which has not only presented the boat, costing £8,500, but has endowed her. She is to be...
Category: Inaugurations
Lily Dale
ST. DAVID'S. —While a gale from W.S.W. was blowing and a very high sea was running, on the 24th March, signals were fired by the South Bishop Lighthouse. At 5 P.M. the Life-boat Gem was launched, made for St. David's Head, and found...