LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maggie Noble, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 9TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
About 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had gone aground on the bar on the north side of Girvan harbour. A fresh south-south-west wind was blowing, with a...
Lachinedoc, of Panama
OCTOBER 18TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.7 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a four-masted steamer drifting towards the rocks. Her position was given...
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
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Hamilton Grey of Liverpool
On the 2nd January, 1864, the barque Hamilton Gray, of Liverpool, ran ashore on DundramBar. The Newcastle life-boat proceeded to her, and took off 2 of her crew, when the boat was struck by a heavy sea, and got seriously damaged alongside...
Assistance, of Stavanger
The Boys life-boat at the same place remained alongside the stranded schooner Assistant, of Stavanger, until that vessel was safely got off the Barber Sand.
Loss of a Bell
A BELL which was bought sixty-three years ago by the fish salesmen of Brixham fish market was used for many years as a speedy method of summoning the crew of the Torbay life-boat even before the maroons were fired. The bell was at one time...
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Duke of Northumberland, K.G.
IN April 1959 H.M. the Queen appointed the Duke of Northumberland, who is the Treasurer of the Institution, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter..
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Notes of the Quarter
WHEN, ON MARCH 27, HRH The Duke of Kent attended the first meeting of the Committee of Management to be held in the RNLI's new London premises, it was the first time that a President of the Institution had addressed such a...
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