LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Norwegian Mail Steamer Bessheim
THE splendid services carried out by the crew of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat Henry Vernon, on the occasion of the wreck of the hospital ship Rohilla off Whitby, in 1914, are probably still fresh in the memory of our readers, and the fine...
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Search for missing boys THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY at St Agnes was informed by Falmouth Coastguard at 1746 on Tuesday August 28, 1984, that a youth was cut off by the tide at Chapelporth. Maroons were immediately fired and by 1750 St...
Annual Meeting
The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address.
THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- ing of the Governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 2.30...
Category: Meetings
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
Category: Articles
Our Lights and Lighthouses
" How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." Merchant of Vawx, IF the faint twinkling of a candle's light was calculated to awaken so beautiful an idea in the mind of our great...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mike Smith, a Tunbridge Wells teacher and a member of the Long Distance Walkers Association, 'pushed out the boat' for the RNLI when the Mayor set him off on a 170-mile sponsored walk from Tunbridge Wells to Weymouth. Mike was...
Category: Articles
Larissa
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...
Twins
GIRVAN.—On the forenoon of the 6th February the wind commenced, to blow very strongly with blinding showers of snow. Several fishing-boats returned, but six of them were missing and as it was thought that the snowstorm had prevented their...
Ingrid II and Thelas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Rescue By Breeches Buoy from a Trawler
At 2.30 on the morning of the 4th of February, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat station, Dr. S. Peace, received a message from the coastguard at Broughness that the trawler Strathcoe was ashore in the Pentland...
Category: Services