LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Boats St. Anne and Cymba, of Kilmore Quay
OCTOBER 11TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
During the morning, while several fishing boats were out, a strong wind sprang up, and by 12.30 in the afternoon it was blowing a gale from the north, with squalls, a rough sea, and...
Pilot Me II and the Courage
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1858
Is accordance with our custom for some years past, we present some facts connected with the Wreck Register and Chart, prepared annually by the Board of Trade for presentation to Parliament.
It is, as usual, a...
Category: Articles
Knikker and the S.S. City of Bengal
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE. At 9 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out to stand by the Dutch trawler Knikker - working from Fleetwood - which had on board survivors of the S.S. City of Bengal.
Margaret Ann
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 8.57 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that flares had been seen be- tween the North and South Smethwick buoys three to five miles east-south-east of...
Daffrobani
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— At 11.56 on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the life-boatWilliam Gammon, Manchester and Dis- trict XXX was at sea for adjustments to her wireless equipment when the coastguard announced that a...
Jeanetta
Workington, Cumberland.—About 2.30 on the afternoon of the 15th of October, 1954, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Jeanetta, of Annan, was overdue. Ten minutes later the life- boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out. The sea...
Before the Crowds Assembled: View Across the Harbour to the Lifeboat House and Slipway. on Show Were The* Whitby Pulling Lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, Ait Atlan
Before the crowds assembled: view across the harbour to the lifeboat house and slipway. On show were the* Whitby pulling lifeboat, Robert and Ellen Robson, ait Atlantic 21 and a D class 1LB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (2)
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.20 p.m.
on 17th August, 1968, it was learnt that a dinghy with two people on board was in difficulties off Weybourne beach. The life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was launched at 2.30...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles