LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Union (1)
At 1 P.M. on the 4th December Coxswain Green observed a schooner in distress off Great Yar- mouth, she having parted from her anchors during a strong S.S.W. gale.
The Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched and proceeded to the...
A Welsh Pilot's Gallantry
THE Institution has awarded an in- scribafl Aneroid Barometer to Mr.
Lionel Hunt, of Barry Dock, Glamor- ganshire, for his gallantry in rescu- ing two men from drowning. Mr.
Lionel Hunt is a Barry Channel...
Category: Awards
H. F. Bolt
The Life-boat Elinor Soget was launched at 3 A.M., on the 7th November, while a moderate to strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, and saved the crew of four men from the Ketch H. F. Bolt, of Appledore, coal-laden,...
A 23' Westerly Pageant Yacht
Electric storm INFORMATION THAT MOTOR YACHT Zaire was standing by a yacht in distress three miles south west of Anvil Point came from HM Coastguard to Swanage lifeboat station deputy launching authority at 1915 on Friday, September 24,...
Fishing Boats
STONEHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE. — The Life-boat Alexander Blade was launched on the 5th March, shortly after noon, the fishing fleet, which had put to sea earlier in the day, having been overtaken by a strong gale, causing the sea to rise...
Fishing Boats (4)
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...
"We Have to Go Out - We Don't Have to Come Back."
"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
Special message to Shoreline members from RNLI director, Rear Admiral W. J. Graham: 7 want to thank all those Shoreline members and governors who have responded so promptly to our request to raise their subscription to the level of the new...
Category: Articles
Hanna
On the 27th June the No. 2 Life-boat British Workman was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hanna, of Lemland, timber laden, from Gefle for Dunkirk, which having lost her mast and becoming waterlogged had been abandoned by the crew,...
A Steam-Launch
SIDMOUTH.—On the morning of the 23rd May H.M.S. Lively, with the DUKE and DUCHESS of EDINBURGH and suite on board, arrived off Sidmouth, and came into the bay, in order that his Royal Highness might land and inspect the Coastguard Station....