LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Association
THE Annual Meeting of this Society was held on the 25th May last, at Willis's Rooms, under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of MARLBOROUGH, President of the Society. There were also present a large number of the friends and...
Category: Meetings
Anchor Shot As Aids to Launching Life-Boats
IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...
Category: Articles
A Beach Out Of Reach
A beach out of reach Even strong swimmers can be caught out, struggling in sight of land. Carol Waterkeyn reports Sunday 3 June 2007 was a memorable day for all the wrong reasons. A family holiday nearly turned into a disaster when Carolyne...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1897-98
WRECK CHART s—,r FOR THE VEAB ( 1897-98.
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Category: Charts
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 288 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
A Small Yacht
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the morning of the 4th September the Needles Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a small yacht had capsized about one mile west of the Needles. The motor life-boat B.A .S.P.
was launched...
George J. Goulandris
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 6.49 A.M. on the 15th January, 1938, the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nell's Point reported an S O S from the Greek steamer George J. Goulandris, of Andros, off Nash Point. She carried a crew of...
Tranio
At 8.47 P.M. on the 13th January, the Royal Naval Signal Station reported that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles north-east of the station. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found that the vessel was the steam...
A Rubber Mattress (1)
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 1.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a girl had drifted out to sea on a rubber mattress four and a half miles south of Berwick. At...