LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ecureuil
Oo the 6th December, at about 2.30 VM,,the lugger Ecureuil, of Gravelines, in ballast, which had lost her mainmast, was driven ashore on the North Saads during a storm from the E.N.E, sad a very high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat, Charles Mather,...
Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance and Green Flag
ARKLOW, IRELAND.—Several fishing boats having been driven from their moorings on the morning of the 16th October, the Out Pensioner Life-boat was launched at 9 o'clock, and saved four large boats, the Safe Return, Mary Frances, Glance,...
Commander Solling
A heavy gale •was blowing at E.S.B. on the 18th De- cember, when the Life-boat Foresters' Pride put out and saved 9 men from the brig Commander Soiling, of Grimstadt One man was saved by the rocket apparatus..
David
The Life-boat London Coal Exchange assisted to save the Prus- sian schooner David, which was observed off the port in a sinking state, with a : signal of distress flying, on the 16th Dee., } a gale blowing at the time and a heavy | sea...
Native, of Peil
On the 23rd May the smack Native, of Piel, went aground on the North Bank, off Maryport, in a westerly gale. The Life-boat at that place, the Henry Nixson, "went to her aid, and, with the assistance of a steam-tog, succeeded in getting...
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Montrose Motor Life-Boat
Left to right:—Mr. George F. Shee (Secretary of the Institution), the Duke of York, the Duchess of York, Provost W. Douglas Johnston (Chairman of the Branch), the Hon. George Colville (Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management). The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morning Star and Mary and Dan
NORTH SUNDERLAND. — The fishingcobles Morning Star and Mary and Dan, of North Snnderland, were overtaken by a heavy sea while fishing on the 8th January, and, as they were in danger, the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched at 1.15 P.M., and...
Coxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley, Northumberland
George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...
Category: Obituaries
Mari
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — At 2.50 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Totland Bay coastguard telephoned that a yacht was in difficulties one mile south of Highcliffe and at 3.0 o'clock the motor life-boat S.G.E. was...