LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The National Fire Service Float Gladys
JANUARY 3 1 ST AND FEBRUARY 1 ST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11 A.M.on the 31st of January the naval control reported that the National Fire Service float Gladys, lying half a mile west of the pier, was driving on to the sands, and at...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 124. Lives rescued 106.
April Meeting.
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Dispatch
At dusk on the evening of the 2nd October the schooner Dispatch, of this port, was making for the harbour, when the wind suddenly fell, and she drove over the rocks into the broken water. The master immediately showed a signal of distress,...
Vidar
About 2 A.M. on the 23rd October the j information reached this station that a j ship was ashore on the Tay Banks. It ' was blowing a strong gale from S.E. ! The Life-boat Mary Hartley being quickly j launched, pulled out of the river,...
Emily, of North Shields
WEST HARTLEPOOL AND REDCAR.—At 11.15 P.M. on the 5th February night signals of distress were observed from the direction of the South Gare, at the entrance of the Kiver Tees. It was blowing a gale from E.N.E., with snow, and a heavy sea was...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat 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
Frida
MONTROSE.—On the 27th of January, the No. 1 Life-boat Augusta rendered assistance to the barque Frida, of and for Christiania, coal laden, from Grangemouth, which had stranded on the Annat Bank in a strong W.S.W. gale and a rough sea. Five...
Swin
The Cox- swain of the No. 1 Life-boat was rung up on the telephone by the Coastguard at 8.55 P.M. on the 13th February and informed that the St. Nicholas Light- vessel was firing signals for a vessel in distress to the north-westward. He...
The S.S. Trent
The s.s. Goole, of Goole, whilst bound on the 24th June from that port to London with a cargo of coal, stranded on the middle Hasboro sands during a dense fog, and two barges which she was towing broke adrift.
' The...