LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...
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Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
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Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
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The Austrian Barque Junak
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 28th May, about 1 A.M., the Castletown Life-boat Commercial Traveller, No. 2, was launched and proceeded to the Austrian barque Junak, of Spalato, which vessel had driven ashore in Castletown Bay, whilst it...
Antelope
POHTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. At 11 o'clock on the night of the 6th Sept., 1884, the coxswain of the Life-boat, took up his station at the watch-house, so as to be in readiness should the ser- vices of the boat be required, as the wind was...
Helsingborg
The steamer Helsingborg, of Helsingborg, bound from Sweden to Blyth in ballast, stranded in the early morning of the 18th February on the rocks about a quarter of a mile to the south of Cress- well Coastguard Station. Information reached the...
Eustace
MARGATE.—While the wind was blowing from W.byN. with almost hurricane force, accompanied by a very heavy sea and terrific hail squalls, on the 27th January, the Coastguard reported flares in the Gore Channel. The crew of the Life-boat Civil...
Abeja
At 1 A.M. on the 4th November it was reported that a schooner was in distress near Gribbin Head and wanted assistance. The Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney was launched and proceeded to the position indicated, where she...
Kremlin
At 6 A.M.
on the 8th April the Coastguard re- ported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails, to the...
Florence
At about 8.55 A.M. on 3rd January a message was received from the Coastguard that a ketch, with a distress signal flying, was dragging her anchors near No. 1 Black Buoy, and was in danger of stranding on the Causeway off Puffin Island. The...