LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hundred Years Ago
KESSINGLAXD, SUFFOLK.—In the ac- count we gave, in our 15th Number, of the establishment of a life-boat by the seamen of Scratby, in Norfolk, we stated that we hoped to see this novel feature in the cause of "preservation of life from...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (6)
24th February. A steamer sent out an SOS, but cancelled it after the life- boats had left. The chief inspector of life-boats and the district inspector of life-boats were on board the Teesmouth life-boat. The life-boat crews at Runswick,...
Marechal Suchet
NEW BRIGHTON.—A telephone message having been received from the lightkeeperat Bidston lighthouse on the llth June, reporting that a ship was on fire in Fonnby Channel and was showing signals of distress, the steam Life-boat Duke of...
Pepita
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of December, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary Secretary that red flares had been seen from the Shipwash lightvessel two miles to the north-west of the light- vessel's...
Scotia
At 10.20 A.M. on the llth May it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks near Northcott Mouth. The sea was smooth, but the fog was very dense at the time.
The Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and...
A Speed Boat
SPEEDBOAT BROKE DOWN Plymouth, Devon. At 6.43 p.m. on Kth April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a speedboat with one occupant had broken down half a mile south of their lookout. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze...
None (7)
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At midnight of February 27th, 1947, a doctor tele- phoned that he was needed for an urgent maternity case at Quarff, and snow prevented him going by road. He asked for the life-boat's help. The motor life-boat Lady...
Neptunia (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
None (1)
Life-boat 70-002 on passage - At 10.50 a.m. on 7th November, 1968, while the Grace Paterson Ritchie life-boat was on passage to Westray, the coastguard told the coxswain that the doctor on Rousay had requested the assistance of the lifeboat...
Bretonne
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—On the 18th December, 1938, the French schooner Bretonne, of Treguier, was sheltering in Whitesand Bay from a S.E. gale.
She carried a crew of five and was bound with a cargo of coal from Cardiff to...