LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON the outbreak of War last year many Branch Committees felt that the arrangements which they had in prospect for the benefit of the Institution should be abandoned and their labours devoted to the many War Funds which immediately sprang...

Glasgow, October 23/24, 1987 On a bright but cool autumn morning the new 52ft Arun class lifeboat Citv of Glasgow III. now on station at Troon, arrived on the River Clyde in readiness to play the starring role in proceedings which, the...

The schooner Handy, of Wexford, bound from Ayr for that port with coals, struck on the Black- water Bank on the evening of the 10th January, during a thick fog, and sprung a leak, when she made for the shore at Cahore, where she subsequently...

BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...

The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 8.45 P.M. on the 22nd September, 1939, the signal station reported that red flares had been seen in an easterly direction. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 8.48 P.M. the motor life-boat...

The motor life- boat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 6.45 P.M. on the llth February, as information had been received that a vessel was aground between Start Point and Hallsands.

A light S.E. wind was blowing, and...

The Motor Life-boat Lady Harrison was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st December, as information had been received from the Coastguard that the steam trawler Velia, of Fleet wood, had stranded about two miles south of the Point of...

The Span- ish steamer Arantzazu, of Bilbao, stranded six miles south of Haile Buoy on the 14th January, while bound laden from Bilbao to Imming- ham. She carried a crew of twenty- nine. She wirelessed for help and the motor life-boat City of...