LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Gunn
HUNA, CAITHNESS-SHIEE.—During a gale of wind from the W.S.W., and an exceedi ingly rough sea, on the 20th January, the Life-boat W.M.C. was launched, at 1 A.M., to the assistance of the fishing-boat Mar- garet Ounn, of Wick, which was in a...
Queen Adelaide Pub Putney Bridge Road London
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arab
At about 3 A.M. on the 20th of October large flares were seen in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand.and guns androekets were fired by the Cockle and St. Nicholas lightships. The Caister No. 1 Life-boat Offaent Garden was launched, and...
Juniper
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 13th of March, 1954, the Sheerness police reported that the salvage vessel Juniper, of London, was driving towards the cliffs at Minster, Isle of Sheppey. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater...
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
FROM the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued, we observe that on the 30th of June, 1885, there were 203 stations, 157 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the Lakes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio,...
Category: Articles
Delga I
Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.50 p.m. on 24th August, 1966, information was received that the trawler Delga I of Grimsby had an injured man on board and required a doctor. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was launched, with a...
Dolores
Redcar, Yorkshire - At 2.30 p.m. on 23rd November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile east of the life-boat station. The life-boat Aguila Wren was launched at 3.10. It was...
Barclay
TYRELLA.—The schooner Barclay, of Goole, bound from London to Ayr, stranded in DiMidrma Bay, d-niing thick stormy weather, at 7 P.M. on the 27th of February. As soon as the vessel was observed, the crew of The Memorial Life-boat were...
Ceres
KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and...