LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alderman Joseph Crookes Grime, Manchester, Salford and District
Manchester, Salford and District.
By the death on 80th June, at the age of sixty-four, of Alderman Joseph Crookes Grime, O.B.E., J.P., during his year of office as Lord Mayor of Manchester, the Institution has lost a very...
Category: Obituaries
Lilian & The Motor Fishing Boats Irene and Faith
The Whitby Motor Life-boat Margaret Harker-Smith put out in a moderate N.E. breeze with a moderately rough sea at 12.50 P.M. on 15th December, as the sea was growing worse and some anxiety was felt for the small fishing-coble Lilian, which...
The Fishing Boats- Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and Provider
About 10 A.M. on the 26th September, a N.E. breeze increased to gale force, causing the sea to break heavily at the harbour entrance, and making it very dangerous to cross the bar. As the motor fishing boats Enterprise, Rosa, Comfort and...
Bridlington Lifeboat the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King Launches to Escort Fishing Cobles and Motor Fishing Vessels Back to Harbour Through Strong Gale Force Win
Bridlington lifeboat, the 37' Oakley William Henry and Mary King, launches to escort fishing cobles and motor fishing vessels back to harbour through strong gale force winds: January 28, 1975.
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Category: Photographs
Ada
ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLANDS.—The Life-boat Henry Dundaa put off at about 11 A.M. on the 1st February, and for some hours remained by the ketch Ada, of Gloucester, which had anchored in a bad position in St.
Mary's...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
Category: Articles
Santa Anna
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Lymington police that a small boat, the Santa Anna, had capsized off Hurst Castle. Efforts...
Visiting Lifeboats came to Poole on passage to or from Jersey from West Germany and the Netherlands
THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...
Category: Articles
Ada (1)
On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...