LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.
DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...
Category: Inaugurations
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
The Belgian Yacht Phaedra
Lifeboat tows yacht to safety of Dunkirk The Dover coxswain /assistant mechanic Anthony Hawkins and crew members David Pascall and Rodney Goldsack have been a warded the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum following an eight-hour...
Oscar
BUDDON NESS, N.B.—At about 11 A.M.
on the 22nd February signal guns were fired from the Lightship, indicating that a vessel was ashore on the South Bank, or in imminent danger. The May Lifeboat proceeded to the spot as soon...
Iron Crown
TYNEMOUTH.—On the 20th October the barque Iron Crown, of Liverpool, while entering Tynemouth about midnight, in a tremendous gale from E.S.E. to E. and a very high sea, became unmanageable near the pier ends, and, after narrowly escaping...
The S.S. Lady Katherine
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
The S.S. Grimm
RAMSGATE.—In answer to guns fired by the G-oodwin light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, left the harbour at 6.45 A.M. on the 28th September, and found the s.s. Grimm, of Hamburg, bound from Antwerp for Montreal,...
Fishing Cobles (2)
A strong N.E. gale sprang up very sud- denly on the 5th February in the early morning when all the fishing cobles were at sea fishing. The alarm gun was fired at Cullercoats, but as all the Life-boat- men at that station were at sea the boat...
Helene Lohden and Restitution
Shortly before 1 A.M. on the 23th January the Coast- guard reported that signals of distress had been fired by the St. Nicholas Light-vessel. As quickly as possible the crew of the No 1. Life-boat Mark Lane were assembled, and the Life-boat,...
Chrysolite
During hazy weather on the 17th October, at about 1.30 A.M. the Coxswain, George Taylor, received a message by telephone from the Amble Coast Guard Station, reporting that signals were being fired from Coquet Island for the Life-boat, as a...