LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
McNear, of Boston
On the night of the 10th June, signals from the Newarp, Cockle, and St.
Nicholas Lightships indicating a vessel in distress were observed from Caister.
The surf Life-boat Godsend was launched, and...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy 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
List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
1856. Hornsea, Yorkshire.
1858. Skerries, Co. Dublin 1861. Aberystwith. . .
1857 Walmer 1857. Seaton Carew 1858. Fraserburgh . . .
1858. Carnsore, Co. Wexford 1859. Exmoath 1859. Lizard ....
Category: Donations
Angora, of Bangor & Trafalgar, of Cley
On the 24th September, 1871, while it •was blowing strongly from the S.E., and a heavy sea was running, a vessel at anchor on a lee shore, near Caister, ex- hibited signals of distress. The No. 1 Life-boat on that station, the Birmingham,...
Nellie Moody, of Nova Scotia
.—On the : evening of the 30th January, at about 8 P.M., a large vessel was observed to have 1 struck on the Parthingwy Rocks, near Moelfre. The Lady Vivian Life-boat, which had been sent to that station only a few weeks previously, was...
Republik
HOLY ISLAND.—At 2 P.M. on the 16th of March a large three-masted schooner was seen, during a cessation of blinding snow storms, lying in for the land, and nearing a dangerous reef of rocks near the harbour bar, named the Parten...
The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of—- 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Advertisement
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely l y Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways...
Category: Articles
Beaconsfield
CLOUGHEY, Co. DOWN.—The barque Beaconsfield, of Brammen, laden with teak from Rangoon for Greenock, via Falmouth, stranded on the ridge inside North Bock in a strong S.S.W. breeze and a rough sea on the 9th April. She fired signals of...