LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...

Horses pull a fully manned pulling and sailing lifeboat through the streets during an early Lifeboat Saturday parade. The exact location is unknown.. - View image in PDF

DECEMBER 6TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 9.15 A.M. the Mersey Docks Board reported a steamer drifting in the Queens Channel, but not in need of help at that time. A heavy westerly gale was blowing, with a wild and confused sea, and the...

NEWBIGGIN, NOBIHTTMBKBLAND.—During a gale of wind from the S.8.E., and a very heavy rough sea on the 22nd of December, the s.s. Acaster, of Hartlepool, bound from Honfleur for Shields, in ballast, was observed ashore on Bridge Head, a mile...

Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At three o'clock on the after- noon of the 28th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a local doctor had received a message from the S.S. Sunfleet, of Goole. asking if a man on board,...

MARCH 2lST. - GIRVAN. AYRSHIRE.

At 9.45 P.M. the police reported that a vessel was ashore about one mile south of Turnberry Lighthouse and was showing flares.

The weather was calm but there was a dense fog...

The boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION and all belonging to them are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...

Lives saved.

Ackergill fishing boats 30 •4rm, schooner, of Liverpool, saved vessel and 4 Aurora, dandy, of Hull — re- mained by vessel.

Avenir, brig, of Krageroe—as- sisted to save vessel and 7...