LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pallas
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Jessie Sinclair
Shortly after 1 A.M. on the 17th July signals of distress were seen about half a mile to the north of the harbour, and in response the Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched. She found the schooner Jessie Sinclair of Port St. Mary, with four...
Spinaway
Buckle, Banffshire. At 8.50 on the morning of the 19th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Spinaway of Lossiemouth was asking for assistance as she was leaking. At 9.5 the life-boat...
Sunbeam
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 9.25 on the morning of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing boat was on fire off North Head. The life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow left her...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness — HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Vice Patron— -His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
President — His GRACE THE DUKE OF...
Category: Advertisement
Ocean Bride, Elsie May and Doris
.—Shortly before 10 A.M. on the 16th March the N.N.E. wind became very squally, and increased to a gale, when three of the Bridlington Quay fishing-boats, which had gone off early in the morning, were off Hornsea. At about 11 A.M. the wind...
Red Snapper
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—Shortly after two o'clock on the afternoon of the 15th of September, 1952, the coastguard re- ported that the motor trawler Red Snapper, of Lowestoft, was aground on the Newcombe Sands three-quarters of a mile...
A Sailing Boat
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 5.46 on the evening of the 8th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a small sailing boat had capsized a mile off Lancing, and that four people had been in the water for about twenty...
De Ruyter
At 10.57 a.m. on I5th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Belgian trawler De Ruyter of Zeebrugge was in need of assistance in St. Ives Bay. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando, and Eva Child was launched at 11...
French Reward to a British Seaman
In the year 1854 a French ship, named the Aigle, was lost on the Spanish Main ; but, owing to the exertions of Captain JONES, of Portmadoc, then in command of the British ship Enterprise, the crew of the Aigle were fortunately saved. Captain...
Category: Medals