LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Schools for Sailors. First Article
EVERYTHING that concerns the moral welfare and improvement of the sailor is of primary importance to a Maritime Power, such as that of the British Empire. Her strength and her commercial prosperity are alike dependent on her strength at sea,...
Category: Articles
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
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PATIENT TO HOSPITAL At 11.40 a.m. on zyth January, 1965, a surgeon at Kirkwall hospital asked the honorary secretary if a life-boat could take an emergency patient from the Island of Eday to the hospital. The lifeboat The John Gellatly...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th January, 1860. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., V.P., F.K.S., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
MARCH No. 2 Life-boat Area Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At 4.30 p.m. on 28th March, 1970, the life-boat's motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was signalling for assistance off Scarlet point. After confirmation...
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Pisces
YACHT ON THE ROCKS When a small motor yacht grounded on Longnose Ledge off Kent on 19thJuly, 1971, Margate Coastguard reported at 12.34 a.m. that the vessel was seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking. The crew could be heard shouting...
Ambeda
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 10th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was reported to be burning red flares a mile and a half south-east of Haisborough lightvessel. The no. 1 life-boat Henri/ Blogg...
Book Reviews
Among the 455 people aboard the passenger steamer Royal Charter which went aground off the Anglesey coast on 25th October, 1859, were members of the family of R. M. Ballantyne, the famous writer of children's books. Ballantyne was deeply...
Category: Articles
Julia
BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 3 P.M. on the 12th January in a very rough sea, the wind blowing a whole gale from W.S.W.
veering to N.N.W., with rain squalls, a signal of distress being...
Erna
The Yar- mouth Life-boat men were exposed for more than eleven hours to the fury of a strong S.S.E. gale and heavy sea, in connection with the wreck of the barque Erna, of Arendal, which became un- manageable when off Yarmouth, on the llth...