LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
The Western Commercial Traveller life-boat at Cadgwith, Cornwall, was lent to the fishermen at their earnest request, and the men were thus enabled to put out and cave their large seine net, which had broken away from its fastenings during...
Christian and Charlotte
On the 6th Decem- ber, during a gale from N.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and hail, the sloop Christian and Charlotte, of Peterhead, was stranded off St. Andrews. The Annie life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and soon succeeded in...
Cymro, of Amlwch
On the 8th April, the smack Cymro, of Amlwch, was observed with a signal of distress flying, in Moelfre Bay, during a strong easterly wind. This life-boat put off and succeeded in saving the smack's crew of 2 men. The vessel...
Nanteos
LITTLEHAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Two schooners were at anchor in St. Bride's Bay, "while a gale of wind was blowing from the S. on the 25th January. It was thought advisable to warn the crew of the Life-boat Friend, to be in readiness...
Anna Maria
GORLESTON.—On the11th November, at 7 P.M., the Life-boat Leicester went off to a vessel which was showing signals of distress in the roads, during a heavy gale from S.W. The vessel proved to be the brig Anna Maria, of Blyth, bound from...
A Coble
23rd Feb- ruary. A coble's engine failed and the two men on board were washed out of her. One was rescued from the .
shore, but the other was drowned before the life-boat could reach him.— Rewards, £7 6s....
Dorshie
— On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel, one and a half miles S.E. of St. Mary's Island, was showing signals of distress. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a heavy ground swell, and a...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenihire. — 14th April. A fishing boat was seen approaching in a very heavy sea, and as there was great risk of being swamped entering the harbour, the life-boat put out, but the fishing boat turned and ran up the Moray...
Mrs. Allchorn on Her 100th Birthday
Reading a telegram of congratulation from the King.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tilda
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...