LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Saltburn
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE.
At 11.25 at night the honorary secretary of the life-boat station received a telephone message from the Barrow police that a vessel was arriving off Lightening Knoll at midnight and...
Penguin, of Dartmouth
MARCH 27TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported that a motor yacht had stopped and that a blanket was being waved from her. The motor life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 6.30 in a...
Cranmere, of Poole
NOVEMBER 6TH. - CLOUGHEY, CO.
DOWN. At 9.47 at night the Tara coastguard reported a vessel in distress in the entrance to Strangford Lough. A light northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm, but it was very...
Trip back in time
The RNLI Historic Lifeboat Collection is
housed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Among the exhibits in the RNLI display are the St Paul, an 1897 unrestored Norfolk and Suffolk-type lifeboat; the 1909-built...
Category: Articles
Aeroplanes
AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1 P.M. information was received from the coastguard that several aeroplanes had crashed four miles west of Selsey Bill. A light S.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Canadian...
New Skylark
APRIL 17TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the naval base reported a fishing boat in difficulties off Foreness Point, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 3.50 P.M....
Empire Daffodil
JANUARY 21ST. - ABERDEEN. At 10.25 A.M. Findon coastguard reported a vessel two miles S. by E. flying a distress signal, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched at 10.45 A.M. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy...
New Ways of Raising Money
A FOOTBALL match between members of learned professions and the police, which took place at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, raised some £70 for the Institution. It was organised by the Rev. J. H. F. Wilson, who himself played in the...
Category: Donations
Correspondents
J. K. W. (Framore).—Many thanks for your communication. If our friends would do likewise the number of our subscribers would be greatly increased. Our object is not to make a profit by our publication, but to diffuse useful information...
Category: Correspondence
Haab (1)
LYDD AND NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—On the morning of the 25th November, during a fresh gale from the W.S.W., and a heavy sea, the barque Haab, of Moss, Norway, bound from New York to Rotterdam, with a cargo of grain, grounded on the outer end of the...