LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dr. J. Iredale, Honorary Secretary, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
By the death of Dr. J. Iredale, of Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, on 8th Sep- tember last, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Honorary Secretaries. Dr.
Iredale became the Honorary Secretary of the Station at Mablethorpe...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brighton
Mr. Arthur Simmons, of New Brigh- ton, Cheshire, who died on 6th January last, was the First Engineer of the first of the Institution's Steam Life-boats, the Duke of Northumberland, and he served as an engineer for twenty-seven years.<...
Category: Obituaries
Redwing
At about 7.30 P.M.
on the 2nd September the fishing boat Redwing, of Poole, was seen to be in difficulties three miles E.N.E. from Peveril Point in a moderate S.S.W. gale with a moderately heavy sea. The Motor Life-boat...
A Steamer (3)
30th October. A steamer had gone on the Long Sand and asked for the help of a tug to get her off.—Rewards, £16 18s. 6d..
Rock City
ALDBOROUGH.—Signal guns having been fired from the Shipwash Sands on the 8th April during a strong N.N.W. wind, increasing to a gate, very squally weather and a heavy sea, the Life-boat George Hounsfidd was promptly launched at 12.30 P.M....
Princess Charming
Thurso, Caithness-shire.—On the morning of the. 18th February the coastguard reported that the motor trawler Princess Charming, of Grimsby, which was off Holborn Head, was in need of immediate help. She was fishing out of Scrabster, and her...
A Steam Fishing Vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire. — 30th October, 1937. A steam fishing vessel had run ashore at Easington, but her crew were rescued by the coastguard rocket life-saving appliance.—Rewards, 18s. Permanent paid crew..
Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon on the 12th February, 1938, as the weather had got very bad, and the local motor fishing boats Mary Joy, Hyperion, Margaret and Floreat were at sea. A strong...
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
Lavinia
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the^afternoon of the 3rd October the coastguard reported that a smallJyacht about fourmiles N.W. of Portland Bill was firing distress signals, and the motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 2.10 P.M. A...