LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Articles
M.V. Cantonad
Storm search BRIXHAM COASTGUARD asked the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2030 on Thursday January 4 to put the lifeboat on stand by for MV Cantonad, a 2,200 ton Greek freighter with a crew of 16, reported listing...
Clifford's Improved Method of Lowering Boats at Sea
IT is now two years since, in conjunction with other plans, we reviewed this novel and ingenious mode of lowering boats, and we then emphatically declared our opinion as to its value, and expressed our hope that it might meet with that...
Category: Articles
Urgent
At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...
Frannaes
HARTLEPOOL.—At about 9 A.M. on the 5th October the brig Frannaes, of Brevig, Norway, was observed to be making for Hartlepool, in tow of a steam-tug, during an easterly gale and in a heavy sea. She grounded on Middleton Beach and filled with...
City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...
Wild Rosw
At 4.15 A.M. on 24th November a telephone message was- received stating that a trawler was ashore in Hawick Bay.
The Life-boat Arthur B. Dawes pro- ceeded to her, and by request took off one of the crew, but the remainder...
Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...
Category: Obituaries
Amelie
HUNSTANTON.—The Life-boat Licensed Victualler put off at noon on the 17th May in a rough sea and a strong N.N.W.
breeze, a vessel having been reported in distress. The vessel proved to be the brig Amelie, of Frederickstadt,...
Fishing Yawls
ARBROATH.—While a strong gale was blowing from E.N.E., with a very heavy sea and snow, on the 22nd January, twelve of the fishing yawls were returning, but it was feared they would be unable to enter the harbour. The Lifeboat William Souter...