LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Cilburnum
During a whole S.W. gale with a rough sea and very heavy rain, information was received from the Torquay Coastguard at about midnight on 10th November that the s.s. Cilburnum, of Bilbao, which was sheltering in the Bay, was dragging her...
Alabama, of Goole
HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...
Douglas
Kirkcudbright.—At 9.10 on the even- ing of the 16th of July, 1954, a man at Kippford rang up to say that a boat with Sea Cadets on board had stranded off Southerness lighthouse, and that her crew were waving. At 9.42 the life-boat J. B....
Water Music
Dover, Kent.—At 2.18 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had been reported in difficulties in Wear Bay. At 2.30 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station, put out....
Iron Horse
Penlee, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th September, 1961, the honorary secretary was in- formed that there was a sick man on board the motor vessel Iron Horse of Newcastle, which was making for Mount's Bay. He...
Swimming Gala In Salford
THE City of Salford branch organized a Swimming Gala in celebration of the King's Silver Jubilee. The baths where it was held were lent and decorated with flowers by the Corporation. Mr.
L. B. Todd, secretary of the...
Category: Branches
The Motor Fishing Coble Provider
On the morning of the 5th April a telephone message was received from the New- biggin coxswain that the motor fishing coble Provider, of Newbiggin, was in difficulties off Cresswell, and that as the Newbiggin life-boat was off service...
The Cost
Twelve life-boatmen lost their lives at sen, or died on their return, and seven life-boats were lost in various ways. One was left on the beaches of Dunkirk. One was destroyed at its station by an air-raid. Three were destroyed by an...
Category: Articles
Hamburg
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—30th May, 1938. The German yacht Hamburg had grounded at the mouth of the River Crouch, but refloated without help.— Rewards, £11 6s. (See special account on page 538.).
Zephyr, of Baniff
Again, on the 11th January last, the Ramsgate life-boat went out in tow of the steam-tug Vulcan to the rescue of the crew of the schooner Zephyr, of Banff, which was totally wrecked on the north part of the Goodwin Sands. The wind was strong...