LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nancy Moran, of London and Nuculana
MAY 30TH. - WALMER, KENT. Shortly after five in the morning information was received through the coastguard that the South Goodwin Lightship had reported a collision.
The sea was smooth, but there was a thick fog, and the...
Three Medals for Fraserburgh.
In the early morning of 23rd. September the Fraserburgh lifeboat was called out. Only the day before the coxswain had been called to the Navy, and Captain Andrew Stephen, honorary secretary of the station took command.
A...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Kenton
MARCH 8TH and 11TH. - CROMER NORFOLK. While the No. 1 lifeboat. F. Bailey was still waiting to land the men she had rescued from the S.S. Corduff, news came through the coastguard that a ship was ashore four miles S.E. of...
The S.S. Strathbeg
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Signals were heard on the morning of the 10th February proceeding evidently from a vessel on the northern part of the island. The weather was thick, snow was falling, the wind was blowing from N.E. a moderate...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK.—About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXVIII.—WALMER.
Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.
TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...
Category: Articles
SERVICES: Exhausting Cliff Service
THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...
Category: Services
(Below) Once a Week (Whenever the Weather Allows) Mrs Joan Bagley Honorary Secretary of Totnes Branch Sets Up Shop In the Private Forecourt of Kingsbridge Inn With T
(Below) Once a week (whenever the weather allows) Mrs Joan Bagley, honorary secretary of Totnes branch, sets up shop in the private forecourt of Kingsbridge Inn, with the kind permission of the owner Philip Potter, or at the town summer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Argo
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.—The barque Argo, of Fredrikstad, was totally wrecked near Macharioch on the 27th February, but happily nine of her crew were saved. The crew of the Life-boat at Southend were assembled, but as it was very doubtful...
Cromdale
During a dense fog on the 23rd May the ship Cromdale, of Aberdeen, was wrecked at Beast Point. The vessel was a large one of 1,849 tons register, bound from Taltal to Plymouth with a cargo of nitrates. Information of the disaster reached...