LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wreck of the Columbus
A LAMENTABLE case of wreck, attended with great loss of life, and one highly dis- creditable to our country, we regret to say, occurred at the Hook Point, Waterford, early in the present year. We would gladly be spared the pain of recording...
Category: Services
Capable
On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.
She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...
Spenanger
OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
Sothebys Came to Dovercourt Last February Thanks to Harwich
Sothebys came to Dovercourt last February, thanks to Harwich and Dovercourt branch which organised this valuation session at the Cliff Hotel.
A George Jones plate was estimated at between £300 and £400: a Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brothers
TENBY.—On the morning of the 8th February, during a heavy westerly gale, the ketch Brothers lying in Caldy Roads, parted her chain. She then made sail, and stood across the bay, when her mainboom was carried away, which disabled her, and...
Syren
The ketch Syren of Beaumaris, whilst bound from Pwllheli to Runcorn stranded near the Gimblet Rock on the 8th March after dragging her anchors. Immedi- ately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the Life-boat Margaret Platt...
Annie
PADSTOW, CORNWALL.—The trawler Annie, of Brixham, while attempting to come into Padstow on the 13th February, grounded on the " Doombar." There was a heavy ground sea and strong W.S.W. gale at the time, andshe no sooner struck than...
Yacht Partner
The Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched at 11.30 A.M. on the 22nd July to the assistance of the ketch yacht Partner, of Havre, which had stranded off the Needles when bound for Torquay.
When the Life-boat reached the...
Grim But Glorious: the Days of Oar and Sail By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
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To many people, every lifeboat rescue is an act of heroism, carried out in a tortuous battle against the elements; to lifeboatmen, even the worst conditions are modestly played down...
Category: Articles
Sterry and Robert Henry
The same Life-boat was launched about 11.15 P.M., on the 9th March, inresponse to flares shown in Margate Roads by the steam launch Sterry, of Lowestoft, bound to Penzance with coal, which was found riding to her anchor in about four fathoms...