LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
To MRS. RALPH, in recognition of her valuable co-operation in connexion with Life-boat Day at Plymouth, the Record of Thanks.
To Miss ADA L. GRANGE, in recognition of her ralnable co-operation at Bognor, a Framed Picture of...
Category: Awards
Women and the Life-Boats
WE have received the following letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Acton and Chiswick Branch :— " The Institution often holds up to women the example of those heroic women on the Northumbrian coast who help to launch life-boats,...
Category: Articles
Edith
At 2.15 P.M.
on the 29th September, the Prawle Coastguard telephoned that a man had swum ashore for help from a motor-boat which was in difficulties off Prawle Point. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
Elise
The No. 2 Life- boat Civil Service No. 1, was launched at 8.30 P.M. on 3rd December during a whole southerly gale to the assistance of the fishing smack Elsie, of Ramsgate, which had stranded on the Long Nose Rock. When the Life-boat got...
The S.S. Rayford
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 12th December, the Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out to the assistance of the s.s. Rayford, of Glas- gow, which was lying at anchor in a dangerous position in Dunnet Bay.
Owing to...
Stepney
At 8 A.M. on the 16th February the coastguard telephoned to the coxswain that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Palling coastguard station.
The tide was then half flood, and there was a slight swell. A moderate...
Honoria and a Coble
SALTBURN, YORKSHIRE.—The Coastguard having reported a vessel stranded near Marske on the morning of the 9th January, the Life-boat Mary Batger was launched at 4.40 in a heavy sea and pulled in the direction indicated. In approaching the...
Fishing Boats
GOUHDON AND JOHNSHAVBN, KlN- CARDINESHIRE. — A large number of fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon went off to fish on the morning of the 15th April, but had to return on account of the E.S.E. gale which came on...
Drake
Whilst the new Life-boat Charles and Eliza Laura was being navigated from Liverpool to her station on the 27th June by a party of New Brighton Life-boatmen, the attention of the Coxswain was drawn by a passing dredger to a small yacht, which...
Hannah Ransom
At about noon on the 7th December it was reported that a schooner was close to the Brake Sands and that her square sails had blown away, and that she was' in difficulties. When near to the edge of the Sand the vessel tried to stay, but...