LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Waesland
NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
Dauntless
GOURDON, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing lugger Dauntless, of Gourdon, was returning to port with her catch of fish on the afternoon of the 16th November.
The wind was blowing from the S.S.E.
and the sea,...
Miss Hughes
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Miss Hughes, of and from Carnarvon, laden with slate for London, showed signals of distress, as she was dragging her anchors and drifting towards the rocks at Nevin Point, in a moderate gale from N.'W. and...
Katharine
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
Two Fishing Cobles (1)
When the cobles belonging to Filey were returning from the fishing grounds on the 7th April they were overtaken by snow-storms and a strong north-easterly wind, caus- ing a very rough sea in the tideway at the Brigg End. Great anxiety was...
Bridlington Memorial Service
ON 10th February, 1871, an unusually severe gale burst upon the North-East coast of England, and at Bridlington there was the terrible spectacle of no fewer than seventeen ships ashore at the same time, rapidly breaking up.
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A Bronze Medal Service at Boulmer
SHORTLY after nine at night on 21st December the Boulmer (Northumber- land) Motor Life-boat L.P. and St.
Helen was launched to the help of a vessel which the Coxswain had seen to be aground on a reef of rocks off Seaton...
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The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income~was obtained in 1934.
£ s. d.
36 IS 0 -MH MBM H MBMBH Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
40 3 0 K «M «...
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Redhead
Falmouth, Cornwall.—During the afternoon of the 15th October, 1938, the St.
Anthony coastguard reported a motor yacht on fire about two miles south of Portscatho. The wind was light and the sea smooth. The motor life-boat B...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Harold Bradford of Exmouth.
Coxswain Bradford first joined the Exmouth crew in 1925. He was bowman from January 1939 to August 1943, when he became second coxswain.
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