LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. 1876
ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, in- formation was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- j hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
Category: Services
The Caister Disaster Pension Fund
AT two o'clock in the morning of 14th November, 1901, the Beauchamp, the No. 2 life-boat at Caister, Norfolk, was launched in answer to flares of distress seen from a vessel on the Barber Sands.
A whole gale was blowing...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1901
SINCE the publication of the last number of The Life-Boat Journal, the Board of Trade has issued its annual Blue Book —so deeply interesting to all taking an interest in sailors and shipping—giving in many admirably arranged tables the...
Category: Articles
The Large American Ship Britannia
On the 30th December, the large American ship Britannia went ashore at Talybout, four miles from Bar- mouth, the wind blowing a hard gale from S.W. at the time. The Barmouth life-boat proceeded to her, and took off 14 men through a heavy sea...
The French Racing Yacht Corum
Torbay lifeboat Ralph and Bonella Farrant returns to Torquay Harbour with the French racing yacht Corum and her 12-man crew in tow. The 45ft sloop had been in danger of foundering on the rocks off Hopes Nose after her rudder snapped in a...
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Buckie Motor Life-Boat
THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet...
Category: Inaugurations
Collisions at Sea. The Loss of the Princess Alice
THE year 1878 will long be remembered by the inhabitants of London as the year in which the passenger steamer Princess Alice was sunk in the Thames by collision with the Bywell Castle, with the loss of more than 600 persons, out of about 850...
Category: Articles
The New Trevose Head Station
The operational opening of the Trevose Head, Padstow, lifeboat station took place on 23rd October, 1967, when the new lifeboat James and Catherine Mac- Farlane was launched down the 240-foot long slipway. On the left is the new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Collier Capitaine Augustin
MARCH 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 2.58 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that a vessel was sinking, after an explosion, about two miles S.E. of the Tongue Light-vessel. A moderate southerly breeze was blowing. The sea was...
The Bark Guyana. of Glasgow
On the night of the 10th February, the bark Guy- ana, of Glasgow, bound to the West Indies, was driven ashore on the Carrig Rocks, off Greenore Point, County Wexford, in a N.E.
gale. Intelligence having been conveyed to the...