LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Caledoina, of Preston
The Life-boat WakefiM ren- ! dered good service to the schooner Cale- l donia, of Preston, on the 27th April by ; remaining by that vessel till out of danger, i the Caledonia having gone ashore on the Horse Bank, and striking heavily till...
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The S.S. Lancashire
On the evening of the 29th October a resident of Pollet saw signals of distress in the Russell. News was passed to the life-boat station and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out at 7.50 P.M.
A moderate N.W. gale...
The S.S. Cilburnum
During a whole S.W. gale with a rough sea and very heavy rain, information was received from the Torquay Coastguard at about midnight on 10th November that the s.s. Cilburnum, of Bilbao, which was sheltering in the Bay, was dragging her...
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
Category: Articles
The Theme for Decoration at Blackburn's Fish Market Bi-Centenary In May Was the Rnli and Collections Amounting to £62 Were Given to the Lifeboat Service Photograph
The theme for decoration at Blackburn's Fish Market Bi-Centenary in May was the RNLI, and collections, amounting to £62, were given to the lifeboat service.
Photograph by courtesy ot North Western... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RAF Seaplane 1231
On the morning of the 2nd November the coastguard tele- phoned that a seaplane was down on the sea, and apparently in difficulties, one mile east of North Foreland. A moderate N.W. breeze was blowing, but the sea was smooth. The motor...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, the inspector of Irish Lights telephoned that a member of the crew of the Blackwater light- vessel was injured and needed medical treatment...
The S.S. Lynx
MOETE BAY, NQBTH DEVON;—The s.s.
Lynx, of Cardiff, bound from that port to Portreath, with coal, sprang a leak when off Morthoe Point, on the 6th March, and with the view of saving the lives of the crew, the master ran her...