LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Druid, of Sunderland
On thellth January, 1862, the barque Druid, of Sunderland, anchored in a leaky state off Eastbourne, in a gale of wind, and hoisted a signal of distress. The Eastbourne life-boat proceeded to her, but the Master required assistance only, and...
An Aeroplane (36)
OCTOBER 13TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles S.W. of Arbroath harbour.
A light southerly wind was blowing, and...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MILFORD HAVEN.—It being thought desirable to place a life-boat at Milford, the Institution 'decided to form a station there. A substantial house was accord- ingly constructed at Angle Point, a position which enables the life-boat to...
Category: Articles
Hunt's Gun and Projectile for Effecting Communication With Wrecked Vessels
IN the last number of this Journal we described an ingenious American invention for night-signalling, which we conceive would be especially valuable in cases of stranding, or other disaster to trading vessels. "We have now to notice...
Category: Articles
Maggie Murray
At about 11.20 A.M. on the 1st January it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that a small ketch was at anchor close to Allonby Bay, and as the weather was squally, with every indication of a heavy gale approaching, she was kept under...
A Centenarian of Eastbourne. A Link Between 1784 and 1937
By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.
THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...
Category: Articles
Excellent and Catherine
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no...
Letters
Safety at sea Having just received my summer copy of THE LIFEBOAT and read the reported speech of John Archer at University College, London, on 'Safety at Sea', I feel that I cannot let it pass without making a few comments on it.<...
Category: Correspondence
A Six-Year-Old Storm Force Member Stuart Tarvit of St.Monans Fife
A Six-year-old Storm Force member Stuart Tarvit, of St Monans, Fife, must be one of the voungest readers of THE LIFEBOAT. A very keen supporter of the RNLI (lifeboat posters adorn his bedroom walls), for his sixth birthday, instead of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Amenity
Dfracombe, Devon.—-At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th of June, 1948, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Bull Point Lighthouse that a vessel appeared to be ashore at Morte Point but that she had made no distress signals. At...