LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
March
MARCH Launches 87. Lives rescued 109.
MARCH 1ST. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 12.55 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship’s boat adrift about two miles N.N.W. of their lookout. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Category: Services
New Life-Boats
WHITBY No. 1 AND UPGANG, YORK- SHIRE.—The Life-boats at these Stations •which had done duty for many years have been replaced by new boats of the modern self-righting type. The Whitby No. 1 boat is named Robert and Mary Ellis, as was her...
Category: Inaugurations
Francis's Corrugated Iron Boats
As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...
Category: Articles
February
FEBRUARY Launches 53 Lives rescued 22 FEBRUARY 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.58 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel in distress east-south-east of the coastguard station. A southerly gale was blowing against the first of the flood...
Category: Services
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Category: Articles
Weather Charts and Storm Warnings
"STORM -warnings may be considered as the most immediate practical application of weather knowledge." Mr. EGBERT H. SCOTT, Director of the Meteorological Department, so commences the eighth chapter of the admirable work to which he...
Category: Charts
October
Launches 74. Lives rescued 140.
OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1983
Aberdovery, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 3,10,15,18,19 (twice), 28 and September 20 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 11, 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, September 1 (twice), 4,7,11,19 and 28 Aberystwyth, Dyfed D class inflatable: August 3, 6, 7, 13,19...
Category: Services
Norval, of Seaham
Again, Oh the 31st October, the brigan- tine Noroal, of Seaham, while lying at anchor in Yarmouth Roads, sprang a leak, and the water gained on the vessel so fast that signals of distress were made, where- upon the Caister No. 1 Life-boat...
Ida, of Glasgow
BRIGHTON.—At about 9 P.M. on the 6th January, when it was blowing hard from S. by E., the barque Ida, of Glasgow, bound from Havre to Pensacola, drove ashore on the beach at this town. A communication was established with the rocket...