LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1851
Moved by Mr. SAMUEL GREGSON, M.P., and seconded by Capt. F. W. BEECHEY, R.N., Board of Trade.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, published, and circulated.
Moved by Capt. REDMAN, one of the Elder...
Category: Meetings
Book Corner
• E. C. B. Lee, O.B.E., c.Eng., F.R.I.N.A., and Kenneth Lee, M.B.B.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.G.S., D.I.H., are to be congratulated on their book Safety and Survival at Sea, (Cassell & Co., price £2.50). A vast amount of time has been taken...
Category: Articles
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
BY the time this article reaches the readers of the Life-boat Journal, the " Life- boat Saturday " season for the year 1896 will be practically over, so that we are in a position to gauge pretty accurately the advancement which has...
Category: Articles
Kate and Mary, of Arklow
On the llth Sep- tember, the smack Kate and Mary, of Ark- low, was observed riding at anchor in a dangerous position during a fierce gale of wind from the S.E., a boy only having been left on board. The Arundel Vendbles life-boat, stationed...
Fishing Yawls
A S.S.E.
gale suddenly arose on the 26th May and a nasty broken sea got up very quickly. At about 2 P.M. it was seen that a number of yawls belonging to Crail, which had been working lobster creels, were in difficulties on...
Eastbourne:
EASTBOURNE: Two 11-year-old boys were rescued by Eastbourne's I6f't I) class inflatable lifeboat on the evening of Thursday, January 7, 1988, after their small dinghy filled with water and began to sink. Their cries for help were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swimming Sid
Emsworth harbourmaster Sid Kennett is well known for announcing 'there's room fora goldfish to swim ' if his pint glass is not filled to the brim, but he was left speechless when Jan Jackson, landlady of the Bluebell Inn decided... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wreck of the S.S. "Ontario," on the Hasborough Sands
THIS fine steamer was totally wrecked on the Hasborough Sands, off the Norfolk coast, on the 20th October last, having grounded there on the Sunday previously. She belonged to Liverpool, and was 2,880 tons burden, and was commanded by a...
Category: Services
Kenneth William and Mor-Nita
Eleven hour escort TWO COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS, Kenneth William of Brancaster and Mor- Nita of Wells were at sea off Wells on the morning of Friday November 21, 1986 in a north-easterly storm force 10 and in very rough and heavy seas.<...
The Steamers R. J. Cullen, Empire Homer, Ingrid, and Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 16TH - 26TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At nine in the evening of the 15th the Kyle coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore two miles N.W. by W. of Barra Head, and the life-boat crew were assembled. Shortly afterwards another...