LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cairnglen
OCTOBER 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 6.57 A . M . a message was received from the port war signal station that a vessel was ashore off the Tyne, north of Souter Point. A strong easterly wind was blowing, and there was a moderate...
Tantivy
At 11 A.M. on the 26th Feb- ruary, during a strong gale at E., the schooner Tantivy, of Wicklow, bound from Liverpool to Wicklow, was forced ashore on the strand north of Howth Harbour.
Immediately on striking, heavy seas...
A Yacht Little Dorrit
The Life- \ boat Civil Service, on the Wexford No. 2 sta- tion, did good service on the 13th May, by saving the crew of 2 men from the yacht Little Dorrit, of Weymouth, which, during a strong gale from the N.N.E., became a total wreck on the...
Eileen
The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.
At the time of...
Medals for Devon Coxswains
Coxswain Edwin Distin, of Salcombe, who won the silver medal in the third month of the war, has now been awarded the bronze medal for rescuing the crew of an Admiralty salvage craft, in very heavy seas. His motor mechanic was ill, and his...
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Peace
At 9 P.M.
on the 30th September distress rockets were seen in the direction of the Swin Middle light-vessel. The information was conveyed to the Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 14, and rockets were fired to...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
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Book Reviews
• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M. on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel with a telescope it...
Category: Services
Diana V
Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...