LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Town of Liverpool
At 1 P.M. on the 21st December, during a gale from the N.E. with a tremendous sea, a vessel was observed on shore at Waxham. The No. 1 Life-boaf Good Hope was promptly manned and launched, but the water was too low to float her over the bank...
Tantivy
At 11 A.M. on the 26th Feb- ruary, during a strong gale at E., the schooner Tantivy, of Wicklow, bound from Liverpool to Wicklow, was forced ashore on the strand north of Howth Harbour.
Immediately on striking, heavy seas...
The Long Sand Lightship
HARWICH.—On the 30th January the Kentish Knock Light-vessel telephoned to Ramsgate that the Long Sand Lightship was flying a distress signa?, and a message was at once despatched by telegraph to Harwich to that effect. On receipt of the...
The S.S. Agamemnon
DOWN.—A tele- phone message was received from Cloughey at 7.30 A.M. on the 28th July, stating that the Life-boat was required to stand by a stranded steamer, as the Cloughey Life-boat was not available.
The crew were...
Don’t Know
At 8.15 A.M. on the 17th July, the cutter Don't Know, of Yarmouth, was observed in distress in the roads abreast the station, and the Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched.
When she arrived alongside the fishing- boat the...
Safety Week
THE annual " Safety Week," organized by the National Safety Week Council, ou which the Institution is represented, is not being held this year at the same time throughout the country. Instead of this, local " Safety Weeks...
Category: Articles
May
At 12.30 P.M. on the 2nd January a telephone message was received from the Coastguard that a fishing coble was in distress north of Emmanuel Head.
The No. 1 Motor Life-boat Milbufn was launched and found the May of Holy...
Harold
The motor life-boat Anne Allen was launched at 11.32 A.M. on the 2nd December, as the coastguard had reported that a fishing boat, six and a half miles S.E. of Skeg- ness, had hoisted distress signals. A strong W. by S. breeze was blowing,...
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus—On the morning of the 30th January the bar off the harbour entrance was very unsafe, owing to a very heavy easterly swell.
Eight of the local fishing boats had not returned, and the motor life-boat John and...
A Small Sailing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. •—• During the morning of the 7th September a man and a woman put off from Benllech in a small sailing boat. A strong squall sprang up from the south-west, and the sea became rough. The man and woman lowered the sails, but...