LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.
In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...
Category: Articles
Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
Category: Articles
Union Crystal
Union Crystal sinks JUST BEFORE 1915 on Wednesday, November 16, 1977, the honorary secretaries of both Sennen Cove and St Ives lifeboat stations were informed by Lands End Coastguard that the 499-ton coaster Union Crystal was in trouble 12...
Twenty-Seven Hours on Service
FOR a service lasting 27 hours, as a result of which 19 people were saved from the motor yacht, Braemar, Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge, junior, of St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, has been awarded the silver medal for gallantry. Two members of...
Category: Services
General Index
Balance Sheet Box Collection* . . .
Branch Remittances .
Contributions to Branches .
1 General Contributions ABERATBOB .... 400 : ABERDEEN • • . •...
Category: Index
Overdue at Depth
Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.
The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1897.
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
Waterloo
The brigantine Waterloo, of Cork, bound from that place to Bristol, j was stranded on the Northam Sands at I 2 A.M. on the 6th November. A fresh ! gale from W.N.W. was blowing at the ! time. The Waterloo, having no means of i making...
A Wreck
I saw a wreck upon the ocean flood.
How sad and desolate ! No man was there; No living thing was on it. There it stood.
Its sails all gone; its masts were standing bare ; Tossed in the wide, the...
Category: Poetry
Our Boys
At 1.30 A.M.
on the 6th May a sailing trawler was observed on the North Bank, and the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched to her assistance. She stood by the vessel until she commenced to break up ; the crew of four...