LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Word of Farewell
WHEN one has, for fifteen years, held an office that any man must be proud and thankful to occupy, it is not easy to say good-bye. Yet the time has come for my retirement from the post of Secretary of the Institution, and I must take leave...
Category: Articles
Seventeenth of May
On the 3rd Feb., during an easterly gale, the Job Uindley Life-boat on this station was launched on observing the wreck of the Nor- wegian schooner Seventeenth of May, from which she was successful in saving 7 men..
Francois Marie of Caen
On the 10th November, during a gale at E., the Life- boat Herbert Ingram assisted to save the brig Franfoise Marie, of Caen, and the barque Die Sehwalbe, of Rostock, both of which vessels were in. a greatly distressed condition off Skegness....
Fishing Boats (1)
FILEY, YOBKSHIBE.— Several fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong S.E. wind and squally weather on the 24th November, the Eollon the Second Life-boat was launched at 10.30 A.M. and accompanied the boats safely ashore..
Republik
HOLY ISLAND.—At 2 P.M. on the 16th of March a large three-masted schooner was seen, during a cessation of blinding snow storms, lying in for the land, and nearing a dangerous reef of rocks near the harbour bar, named the Parten...
Fishing Cobles
BOULMER.—The Life-boat Eobin Hood of Nottingham was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the iSth February, and remained outside the harbour until several fishing cobles safely entered, they having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.E.,...
Winefred
At 10.30 A.M. on the 23rd February a Coastguard reported that a vessel was dismasted about three miles east of Mevagissey, with a signal of distress hoisted in her rigging. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing at the time with a rough sea.<...
Envermeu
— The Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched shortly before 4 A.M. on the 24th December to the assistance of the steamer Envermeu, of London, which stranded on the Goodwin Sands whilst bound to the Tyne in ballast. When the Life...
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, of Hastings and St. Leonards
Mr. A. J. G. Anson, who died on llth January, at the age of seventy-seven, was from the beginning of 1917 until towards the end of 1925 the Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Station, and he retired then on account of serious ill-health. He...
Category: Obituaries
Waterwitch
The Coastguard, at 8 A.M. on the 2nd January, reported that a vessel was ashore on the west end of the Mixon. Reef, and the crew of the Life-boat Lucy Newbon were quickly assembled and the boat launched. They found the barquentine Waterwitch...