LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceres
KIMERIDGE, DORSET.—On the 21st of March the cutter Ceres, of Poole, bound to that port from Truro, with barley, which had been hove to owing to a dense fog, had just been got round with her head to the S. when the wind suddenly changed, and...
Kate Agnes, of St Johns
On the 10th February, the barque Kate Agnes, of St. John's, N.B., came broadside on the beach near Irvine during a strong wind from W.N.W. The same life-boat was promptly manned and launched, and in two trips brought safely ashore the...
Margaret Ann, of North Shields
Again, oa the 8th December, the barque Margaret Ann, of North Shields, stranded off Swansea during a very heavy gale.
The Life-boat put off and remained near the vessel for some hours; the crew were ultimately taken off by...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The 36th Annual Meeting of the Committee of the Fund was held on the 16th ultimo, and was presided over by Sir RALPH H. KNOX, K.C.B. Mr.
CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secretary, reported that the Fund continued to receive...
Category: Meetings
Life-Boat Days In 1948
IN 1947 the Institution held 859 flag days. The number of people who gave was 7,154,000, and the sum given was £87,920.
That was 42 more days than in 1947, but the number who gave fell by nearly 400,000 and the sum...
Category: Donations
Hatano and Nogi
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the night of the 16-17th August, sixteen men belonging to the trawlers Hatano and Nogi were rescued.—Rewards, Bronze medals, vellums and monetary awards amounting to £40 15s. (For a full account of this...
Mayflower (1)
Holyfaead, Anglesey.—On the 26th of October, 1949, the life-boat rescued the crew of seven of the Liverpool steamer Mayflower.—Rewards, bronze medal and £14 10*. (For a fuU account of the service, see page 380)..
Asia (1)
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
A Hovercraft
FIRST RESCUE FROM HOVERCRAFT On the 17th September, 1962, the first rescue of the crew of a hovercraft was carried out by the Rhyl, Flintshire, life-boat. For a full account of this service, for which Coxswain Harold Campini was awarded the...
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Clovelly, North Devon. At 5 p.m.
on 22nd June, 1965, the coastguard reported that a helicopter was going to try to rescue a man who had fallen over the cliff at Lundy Island. The life-boat was asked to stand by. The maroons...