LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1931.
£ s. d.
32 18 0 «•—• Construction and Repair of Life-boats, Carriages and...
Category: Accounts
Pearl
The motor Life-boat General Farrell was launched on the 5th August in response to a telephone message from the Smalls Lighthouse, stating that the crew of the schooner Pearl were taking refuge in the Lighthouse, and wanted to be landed. The...
Iris
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carry- ing a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the Life-boat in...
H.M. Minesweeper Canton
— H. M. Mine- Sweeper Canton ran aground on the Newcome Sands in a strong E.N.E.
breeze and rough sea, on the 27th May.
j Signals of distress were made as the sea was breaking over her...
Der Zehnte Juni
STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...
The American Yacht Bolero
AMERICAN YACHT AGROUND AND HOLED Selsey, Sussex. At 12.45 a.m. on Saturday the 3rd of August, 1963, the Selsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the American yacht Bolero was aground on a wreck in Bracklesham Bay. At 1.15 the...
Rig Supply Vessel Sinks After Collision
Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel Si Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched at 1620 following a Mayday call from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
Two calls A RED FLARE was sighted off shore by the honorary secretary of Withernsea lifeboat station and a shore helper at 2025 on Sunday July 27, 1980. Maroons were fired and while the two men were preparing the D class inflatable lifeboat...
Tennant, of Stockton
On the 5th January, the brig Tennant, of Stockton, ran on shore, in a severe snow-storm, on the Newcome Sand.
She was quickly seen from the shore, and the Lowestoft life-boat was immediately manned and launched, under the...
The French Chasse-Maree Eleanore, of Nantes
On the night of the 4th November a French chasse-maree, the JSleanore, of Nantes, was driven on shore on the West Sand off Blakeney, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W., and the night hazy. At daylight the vessel was seen from the shore, and...