LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Daybreak
Between 10 and 11 A.M. on the 10th January the ketch Daybreak, of Peterhead, bound for Stonehaveu with a cargo of coal, came into Stonehaven Bay with the intention of making the i harbour. The wind was blowing \ Lifestrongly from the south...
The S.S. Argentum
During foggy •weather on the 1st October the s.s.
Argentum, of Newcastle, stranded on the Blakeney West Sands whilst bound from Goole to Faversham with a cargo of coal. Coxswain Long observed the accident and promptly took...
Fish Carrier Khartoum
During foggy but smooth weather on the 6th June, information was received that a trawler had run ashore on the Bell Buoy Shoal, Scroby Sands. The crew of the Mark Lane were promptly assembled and the boat, in tow of a tug, proceeded to the...
Sir George Shee
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 101 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 86 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to June 23rd, 1931 - 62,610 Sir George Shee.
His Majesty the...
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Alexandrine
The Motor Life- boat, H. F. Bailey, put out at 11.5 A.M.
on the llth October, in hazy weather with a smooth sea and moderate S.W.
breeze, as the Haisborough Light-vessel had reported a vessel aground op....
Pauline
On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to Barry, but had had engine trouble when near Holyhead, become...
Prince of Wales Days In 1935
DUKING 1935 Life-boat Days, through the gracious permission of the Institu- tion's President, were known as " Prince of Wales Day," in celebration of the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
There was an increase...
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The Dundee Sand Boat Oberon
The "motor life-boat Mona was launched at 2.10 A.M. on the 19th October, as flares had been seen from the Dundee sand-boat Oberon, which, with a crew of four, was at anchor just below Tay Bridge. A whole S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Wilh. Colding
COLLISION IN A FOG Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 5.5 in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1947, the coastguard received a mes- sage from a vessel five miles north-east of Rattray Head that she was sinking after collision with a trawler...
A Sea Otter Aeroplane
Appledore, Devon.—At 11.58 in the morning of the 15th of July, 1948, an urgent message was received, through the coastguard, from H.M.S. Harrier, that the pilot of a Fleet Air Arm aero- plane had baled out five to fifteen miles north-west of...