LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY Services Lives Saved No. Percen- tage of Total No. Percen- tage of Total (1) Naval vessels . . 5 •4% — — (2) Foreign going merchant vessels 31 2-8% 17 3-4% (3) Home trade mer- chant vessels . . 30 2-7% ...
Category: Services
The Greek Motor Vessel King Minos and the S.S. Prodromos
Dungeness, Kent. At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of December, 1958, the coastguard at Lade informed the honorary secretary that two vessels had been in collision twelve miles south-south-west of Dungeness. At 1.30 the life-boat Mabel E....
Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...
Awards to Honorary Workers
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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...
Category: Awards
Three Fishing Cobles Mary, Kingfisher, William and Alice all of Hartlepool
The fishing- coble Mary, of Hartlepool, was seen in a helpless condition drifting on the Kettleness Reefs, in the south part of Runswick Bay, soon after daylight on the 16th June, while a heavy gale was blowing from the...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
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The Quiver, No. I.
This Life-boat is 34 feet long with 8 feet 3 inches beam, and pulls 10 oars.
A LIFE-BOAT Station was first formed at the town of Margate, under the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats at Llandudno and Conwy By Heather Deane
LLANDUDNO AND CONWY are neighbouring lifeboat stations on the north western tip of Wales, separated by just a few miles of coast but by more than 100 years in lifeboat history.
In 1850 Llandudno was a small village...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
End of a Voyage to New Zealand
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
Footprints on the Sand of Time By Edward Carpenter
THE YEAR OF 1891 was one well remembered for the terrible storms that caused many lives to be lost in the Channel. The Romney Marsh coast was no exception. On March 9, 1891, in a severe gale the Coastguard, with local folk, were called to a...
Category: Articles