LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceres
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—The barque Ceres, of Eonne, bound from Cronstadt for Berwick with a cargo of battens, in trying to enter the harbour, on the evening of the 24th August, struck on the bar and was driven by the heavy seas on Spittal Beach,...
Mary J. Masson
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton
Mrs. Walter, of Southampton, died in April, only a month after she had resigned the Honorary Secretaryship of the Southampton Branch, on account of ill-health and advancing years. She was in her eighty-seventh year....
Category: Obituaries
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Herring Boats
Early on the morning of the 17th January several local herring boats put off to fish in the bay. Later heavy S.W.
squalls sprang up, with a rough sea and rain. It was reported that some of the boats were in danger, and the...
Vortigern
POLPEAR, LIZARD.—On the 6th August, the Life-boat Edmund and Fanny was launched at 9 a.m., and proceeded to the four-masted barque Vortigern, of and from London, bound for Calcutta with a cargo of jute. She was found to be safely anchored ia...
A Coble
During a strong northerly gale which had brought up a rough sea on the 27th February the Chief Officer of Coast- guard reported that a coble was about three miles off Flamborough Head, and in considerable danger. The report was received at 4...
An Ex-Naval Whaler
IN DISTRESS ON A PLEASURE TRIP Swanage, Dorset.—At 2.25 in the morning of the 30th of August, 1947, the coastguard reported a small boat flashing the SOS signal in Durlston Bay, and the motor life-boat Thomas Markby was launched at 2.50 in a...
A Record Summer
THE six summer months of this year have been the busiest which the Lifeboat Service has ever had in time of peace. Its boats have been out on service more often and have rescued more lives than ever before. The launches numbered 339, the...
Category: Services
Flanders
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.20 in the morning of the 18th of Saptember, 1948, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a trawler had wirelessed that she had picked up two men, who had been adrift in a motor boat, and asked for the life-boat to...