LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Fishing Cobles and a Pilot Coble
WHITBY.—At noon on the 20th April, daring calm weather and a heavy sea, three fishing cobles and » Hartlepool pilot coble, the latter with only one man on board, were observed making for Whitby Harbour. It was considered unsafe for them...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
Category: Articles
Three Little Tales and One Moral
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THERE was once afi actor-manager who set out to produce a drama which was ' to take the whole of London by storm. I Wherefore, regardless of expense, he ! secured a caste of the most eminent I actors and actresses in...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat and an Outboard Motor Boat
TOWED TWO At 3.57 p.m. on 24th September, 1964, the police told the coxswain that a vessel was on fire off Epple Bay. There was a moderate sea with a fresh southerly breeze. The tide was one hour past high water. At 4.10 the life-boat North...
The Emperor and Empress of France
—The following account is given of a recent interview between Louis NAPOLEON and a man named LEFEORE, who has been instrumental in saving many lives:—-" How long is it, Lefeore, since I decorated you—and how many men have you saved...
Category: Articles
Nyria and the Wherry Silver Cloud
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which a man was waving ap- peared to be in difficulties in Pegwell Bay. The life-boat Prudential left her moorings at 8.15...
Knikker and the S.S. City of Bengal
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE. At 9 P.M. the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should go out to stand by the Dutch trawler Knikker - working from Fleetwood - which had on board survivors of the S.S. City of Bengal.
A Summer Wine and Quiche Party Organised By Northampton Ladies' Guild and Held at Castle Ashby the Home of the Marquess of Northampton Raised £1133 for Aldeburgh Lifeboat Appeal Cond
A summer wine and quiche party organised by Northampton ladies' guild and held at Castle Ashby, the home of the Marquess of Northampton, raised £1,133 for Aldeburgh lifeboat appeal. Conducted tours were taken round this delightful... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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DECEMBER 23RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. Flares had been reported but nothing could be found, and it was thought that they had been dropped by an aeroplane. - Partly paid permanent crew.
Rewards, £4...