LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ross Cormorant
TOO ROUGH At 8.30 a.m. on 9th of April, 1966, the Lloyd's agent told the honorary secretary that the trawler Ross Cormorant would be in Bridlington Bay at 8.30 p.m. and wished to have a sick man taken off. He had asked for a coble to go,...
Mexico
LYTHAM.—On the night of the 9th December, signals of distress having been Been, the Life-boat, Charles Biggs, was launched at 10 o'clock, and proceeded under sails and oars some distance to windward; she was then taken under oars across...
The Mignonette.
BROOKE.—On the 19th January at 8 P.M.
the coastguard at this station discovered that a ship was on the rocks at Sudmore.
The crew of the Life-boat George and Anne were summoned as soon as possible, and...
The Indian-Registered Freighter Vishva Parag
You can't park that 'ere...
The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag...
ILB launches on service during the months December, 1972 January and February, 1973
Atlantic College, Glamorganshire January 21.
Beaumaris, Anglesey December 26 and February 4.
Broughty Ferry, Angus January 3 and February 15.
Conway, Caernarvonshire December 24.
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1877
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddon- ness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd September, 1869: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
Category: Committee
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: January 1996 Coleman Hernon, ex-coxswain of Aran Islands lifeboat (formally known as Galway Bay).
Coleman became bowman of the lifeboat in 1949, 2nd Coxswain in 1951 and...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
Category: Articles