LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blanche
At 9.30 A.M.
on the 15th July the fleet of cobles belonging to Whitby were out fishing in a heavy ground swell. One of the cobles, with three men in her hanging on to their nets, was suddenly swamped by a heavy sea and sunk...
Celestina
At 7.45 P.M. on the 1st October the Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was called out by flares and rockets which had been seen in a north- easterly direction. About two miles from the east Margate buoy they found the schooner Celestina, of...
The Passenger Steamer Nottingham
During thick weather on the llth December a vessel was observed ashore on the Scroby Sands, opposite to the Life-boat station.
There was a strong breeze blowing, and a ground swell on the Sands. The crew of the No. 1...
The S.S. Buccaneer
The s.s. Buccaneer, of West Hartlepool, carrying a crew of twenty-one hands, stranded on the North Scroby Sands on the 18th March.
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden proceeded to her assistance, and when she reached her the...
The S.S. Glenravel
The new Motor Life-boat Lady Rallies, which had been stationed at Fraserburgh as recently as July, was called upon to per- form her first service on the 8th August.
Between seven and eight o'clock in the morning an...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Egremont
MARGATE.—On the evening of the 18th March the coastguards reported that a vessel off the Margate Sandhead buoy had just lost her foremast and gear, bnt was not showing any signal for assistance.
A strong gale was then...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1929.
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Category: Accounts
Gorleston
— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...
Noel
On the night of the 15th October the fishing boat NoSl, of Lancaster, bound with a crew of five for Fleetwood, got into diffi- culties in heavy weather. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing,, with a rough and confused sea. The NoBl got out of...