LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolute
FISHGUARD.—The schooner Resolute, of Aberystwyth, bound from Abersocb. for Bristol with a cargo of lead ore, showed a signal of distress while at anchor in the bay, during a fresh gale from the S., on the morning of the 13th December. The...
London Life-Boat Day and 10 Downing Street
I THINK I may claim to be a, more or less, seasoned collector, having collected annually from luxurious hair to a bald pate, and I find that most years are marked by some peculiarity —other than myself. This year was marked by a direct...
Category: Articles
Award to Dublin Boat Owner
ABOUT 2.45 on the afternoon of the llth August, 1962, the yacht Lorelei, which was one of the Mermaid class, capsized shortly after leaving Rush Harbour, Co. Dublin. Several people saw the incident and raised the alarm.
A...
Category: Awards
Yacht Partner
The Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 22nd July to the assistance of the ketch yacht Partner, of Havre, which had stranded off the Needles when bound for Torquay.
When the Life-boat reached the...
Calendars and Cards
ONCE again the Institution will have on sale a pictorial calendar. This, for 1968, will consist of a very striking cover, bearing a dramatic colour picture taken at sea from the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, life-boat, and the months spread over...
Category: Advertisement
M. Silas's Inextinguishable Marine Lights
A LIGHT of a novel character, which, from the circumstance of its being inextinguishable by water, bids fair to be a valuable acquisition, has been recently introduced and patented by M. Silas, a French gentleman, who has lately been...
Category: Articles
Richard and Francis
LOWESTOFT.—Flares having been seen N.E. of the Newcome Sands, during a strong N.W. wind and a rough sea, on the night-of the 25th November, the Life-boat Two Sisters Mary and Hannah went out at 10 o'clock, and found the sloop Richard and...
An Ex-Coxswain's Gallantry
COXSWAIN THACKSTON CRAFTS, a boat- man of Southsea, was coxswain of the Southsea life-boat from 1893, seven vears after the station was opened, until it was closed in 1918, when he retired, being awarded a coxswain's certificate of...
Category: Articles
Craddock
Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.14 on the night of the 11th of July, 1960, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been observed six to seven miles east-south-east of the Newarp lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henry...
Italian Medals for Cromer
THE Italian Government has awarded medals to the Cromer life-boat crew for their gallantry in rescuing thirty men from the steamer Monte Nevoso, of Genoa, in October, 1932. The steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands and had broken her...
Category: Medals