LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Briar
At 6.55 P.M. on the 17th April the coastguard at Kinnaird Head telephoned that a motor boat was on fire off Rosehearty, and that the crew appeared to be taking to their small boat. The motor life-boat Lady Rothes was launched at 7 P.M., in...
Mr. R. O. Hill, of Drogheda
The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.
For twenty years, from 1911 to...
Category: Obituaries
No. 2
On the afternoon of the 25th January the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned that Pilot Vessel No. 2 was in distress off the Bar Lightship. A whole N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and heavy squalls of sleet and rain. The New...
Confid
Humber, Yorkshire.—Shortly before midnight on the 19th March, 1938, the motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, bound laden from Plymouth for Middlesbrough, ran aground on the Inner Binks. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1930.
£ ' s. d.
44 6 0 •- —— —— —- —•— — Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days.
37 6 0...
Category: Accounts
A Fishing Boat
On the night of 9th March the Coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was believed to be on the rocks near the Carr Lightship, and on fire. The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat John and Sarah Hatfield was launched at 11 P.M. in a slight W.N.W...
Dorothy
On the night of the 20th October the fishing boat Wenden came in and reported that the motor fishing boat Dorothy was in trouble off Berry Head, with her propeller fouled by nets. Her two occupants had asked for the motor trawler Cygnet to...
A Small Fishing Boat
The motor life- boat J.J.K.S.W. was launched at 4.40 P.M. on the 15th May, as the Kirkwall coastguard had telephoned that a small fishing boat, with only one man on board, had blown adrift from Scapa Pier. A whole N.E. gale was blowing,...
The Airliner Cloud of lona (1)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
A Dinghy (1)
Porthdinllaen,Caernar vonshire. At 4.33 p.m. on 5th August, 1965, the honorary secretary heard that a small boat had been reported in difficulties in a south-westerly gale and a rough sea, about one mile north-east of Trevor. The tide was...