LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE LOSS of Penlee lifeboat and her crew stunned people throughout Great Britain and Ireland and thousands of messages of sympathy from many parts of the world were received by the bereaved families. Before she was lost, the lifeboat Solomon...
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Peace Time Record of Lives Saved: Outstanding Year's Work Reported
THE President of the R.N.L.I., the Duke of Kent, said at the 148th annual meeting at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 18th May, that the Institution rested on four great pillars, each of which was essential to its health and...
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Services of Foreign Life-Boats to British Vessels In 1932
IT is hoped in future to publish each year in the summer number of The Life-boat, the record of the services of foreign life-boats to British vessels during the previous year. The record for 1932 is as follows : The United State* of...
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The Ketches Flower of Essex, Enterprise, Lord Beresford and Eustace
MARGATE.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 29th November, a message was received at Margate from the Coastguard at Epple Bay, stating that a barge was ashore half a mile east of that place; at the same time the Coastguard at Birchington reported a barge,...
Mary Ann
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, rescued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on the...
Chandos, of Grimsby
APRIL, 22ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.55 at night the life-boat watchman reported a vessel aground on the Binks. Shortly afterwards she signalled SOS by whistle. The weather was fine, with a light variable wind and a...
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Two Ketches, The Witch, of Wave and The Azur
On the 20th February two ketches belonging to Belfast, named the Witch of Wave and the Azur, put into Cloughey Bay when bound for Portaferry. The vessels ex- pected to get away the next morning, but a gale had sprung up and continued blowing...
Coronation, of London
On the 30th November, the schooner Coronation, of London, was observed' to strike on the Caister Shoal, or Inner Barber Sand, during a fresh breeze from. S.E. by E.
The beachmen went off in their yawl; but finding they...