LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
APPLEDORE, DEVON.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has re- cently sent a new Life-boat to Appledore, North Devon, to replace one which had been stationed there for many years. The new boat is 34 feet long, 1 feet wide, and rows...
Category: Articles
A Ketch and the Shrimper Marjorie
At about 10 A.M. on the 20th April, a ketch was seen to miss stays and run aground on Taylors Bank, and as the cone had just been hoisted denoting a gale might be expected, the Life-boat John andHenrietta was launched and proceeded to...
A Speed Boat and a Dinghy
Aberdovey, Merioneth. At 2.30 p.m. on 9th August, 1964, the Outward Bound Sea School look-out saw a submerged dinghy and a capsized speedboat with one person on board being carried put to sea by the ebbing tide. At 2.35 the inshore rescue...
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1878-79
THE last Wreck Register of the British Isles published by the Board of Trade continues to tell the same sad tale of fearful disasters at sea as of yore, last year claiming 3,002 as haying occurred in the seas and on the coasts of the United...
Category: Articles
The S.S.. Sabac and Dorington Court
STEAMER AND MOTOR VESSEL IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent. At 12.13 early on the morning of the 8th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the Dover honorary secretary that a collision had taken place between two vessels, the s.s. Sabac...
Page & Moy
Destinations include: Spitzbergen, Fjords & North Cape 15 nights from 14 - 29 August Cruise No. 4A01 The National Trust Northern Capitals Cruise 7 nights from £74!t 21 - '2X August Cruise No. 4YI3 Magnificent Norwegian Fjords 7...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SEAHAM, DURHAM.—The seafaring popu-ation of this place having expressed a de- sire to have a life-boat, not only for the sake of assisting the crows of distressed vessels, but also that they might bo on- ! abled to help pilot and...
Category: Articles
Aboard Were Helmsman Brian Niland And Crew Members Ciaran Oliver And Michael Swan, Pictured Below From Right To Left
Galway inshore lifeboat crew members were paged at 11.45pm and, 15 minutes later, the B class Atlantic 75 Dóchas (which means ‘hope’) was launched. Aboard were Helmsman Brian Niland and Crew Members Ciaran Oliver and Michael Swan,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast (2)
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
the Kathleen, Clarice, Pen Cw and Westmark
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—About 9.15 on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that he had received warning of a full south- westerly gale, and at 9.45 he stated that several fishing boats were at...