LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Stamp Club
As was announced in The Life-boat for last November, Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch, has formed a stamp club to sell postage stamps for the benefit of the Institution....
Category: Donations
Malvoisin
Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 18th March a telephone message was received by the Harwich Coastguard reporting that a vessel, with her sails blown away, was driving east of Woodbridge Haven, and showing signals of distress. The steam Life-...
Pallas and Nelly
BROADSTAIRS.—At 6 A.M. on the 18th Sept., when it was blowing hard from the N.E., in reply to signals of distress exhibited from the North Sand Head lightship, the Life-boat Samuel Morrison Collins was launched, and standing off under sail,...
Twelve Times As Much.
The branch in Newport, Shropshire, which in 1942 raised £12, and has never before raised more than £17, last year raised £205..
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
Ramsgate, Kent.—Four small fishing boats manned by fifteen men left harbour at 7 A.M. on the 2nd October, 1938. By ten o'clock a whole S.W.
gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The boats were unable to make harbour,...
Ebro (1)
MARCH 18TH. - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. Just before nine o’clock in the evening the coastguard at Kinnaird Head reported that a white rocket had been seen off Rattray Head, and at 9.20 the Fraserburgh motor life-boat John...
Clipper
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Orlock in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Clipper of Rotterdam was aground on the Maidens off Larne. At 6.10 the life-boat Sir...
Gerlisa
Aground in a storm IT WAS BLOWING A GALE from the south south east, gusting to storm force 10 at times when, on the evening of Friday December 12, 1986, the honorary secretary of Clogher Head lifeboat station received news that a fishing...
Prelude and Marie Christine
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.20 p.m. on 2oth February, 1967, two French trawlers, the Prelude and the Marie Christine, were reported to have broken down 10 miles west of Ardnamurchan.
The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Cantabria
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the 2nd November, 1938, the Cromer life-boat rescued five from the Spanish steamer Cantabria, which was slowly sinking after being shelled by an armed auxiliary cruiser flying the flag of...