LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Advance
The schooner Advance, of Plymouth, when bound from Hull to Teignmouth with a cargo of coal, was wrecked on the Scroby Sands on the 23rd February. Immediately on receipt of information of the casualty the crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent...
Nordstiernen
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—During a very strong gale of wind from the S.S.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, at about 4 P.M. on the 29th April, a sloop was observed in the offing sailing in a westerly direction. The wind increased and shifted westerly,...
Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Station
BY the death of Miss Letitia French, of Palling, Suffolk, on 6th April, the Institution has lost a most valued helper and one who had the distinction of having been, for a number of years, the only woman Honorary Secretary of a Station. Miss...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. S. S. Jerrett, of New Brighton
MR. S. S. JERRETT, of Liverpool and New Brighton, who died on the 9th November last, at the age of seventy- four, was for over thirty years associ- ated with the Life-boat Station at New Brighton. The son of a sea-captain, he was connected...
Category: Obituaries
Iris
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carry- ing a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the Life-boat in...
Highland Leader
At 6.45 P.M. on the 16th November, the motor life-boat John and MaryMeik- lam of Gladswood put out in response to signals from the Cockle light-vessel. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing with a very heavy sea on the sands. The steam drifter...
Ribhinn Og
Shortly before midnight on the 14th February, the Tolsta post office telephoned that two local fishing boats were in distress off Tolsta Head, which is about twenty- two miles by sea north of Stornoway.
A strong west wind...
The S.S. Cornish
The S.S. Cornish Rose, of Liverpool, bound from Fowey to Preston, with a crew of nine, got into difficulties when about twenty-one miles north of Pendeen on the evening of the 6th December. Her fires had been extinguished by heavy seas, and...
Rabbit
Margate, Kent. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had capsized and her crew of two were in the water one mile off Birchington. Ten minutes...
Fishing Boats
Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore managed to get in...