LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from a Steamer In Dense Fog
AT 10.8 on the night of the 8th of March, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Campbeltown station, Mr. A. P. MacGrory, that the S.S. Gracehill, of Campbeltown, was ashore on Sanda island in thick fog and needed help....
Category: Services
Opening the New Life-Boat House at Cullercoats
FURTHER evidence of the popular ap- preciation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION and all that appertains to the saving of life at sea was furnished on Saturday, 8th August last, at Culler- coats. About ten years since the Co-...
Category: Articles
The Late Mr. E. W. Cooke, R.A., F.R.S.
We lament to record the death, on the 4th January last, of this distinguished marine artist and Member of the Royal Academy.
By Mr. Cooke's death the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION . has lost one of its oldest friends....
Category: Obituaries
A Record Year
THE year 1936 was for the life-boat service the busiest in its whole history of 113 years. Life-boats were launched 468 times to the help of vessels in distress. That is an average of nine launches a week. Never before have there been so...
Category: Annual Reports
James Garfield
At midnight on the 18th December large flares were seen in the direction of the Barber Sand. A yawl went out and sailed to the sand, but meanwhile, as the flares continued to burn and the Cockle lightship fired guns and rockets, the Lifeboat...
Monarch
At 8 A.M. on the 14th September a barge was seen drifting ashore about half-a-mile from Thorpeness. The assembly signal was at once fired and the No. 2 Life-boat promptly launched. The life-saving apparatus also proceeded to the scene of the...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
Sarah
JOHNSHAVEN.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th February, a small steamer, the Sarah, of Montrose, bound from Bridgeness for Fraserburgh with coal, was observed by the watch at the coastguard station to be dangerously near...
Mary
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing-lugger Mary, of Johnshaven, was seen making for the harbour on the evening of the 5th May. A heavy dangerous sea was running, there was very little wind and the water was low, so that it was...
The S.S. Langdon
NORTH DEAL, KINGSDOWNE, BROADSTAIRS and RAMSGATE.—On the 8th April the s.s. Langdon, of London, bound fromBlyth for Dartmouth, with a cargo of coal, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands, in a dangerous position, during a dense fog, at about 4...