LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Punt Rapid
About 10 P.M.
on the 9th June it was reported that a punt, named the Sapid, belonging to Southwold, had not returned ashore.
As the wind was blowing strongly O O t' from E. by S., accompanied by a...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1897
THE RIGHT Hon. G. J. GOSCHEN, M.P., FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY, rs THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Eight Hon. a.
J. GOSCHEN, M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
Seconded by Sir COURTENAY BOYLE...
Category: Meetings
Notes of the Quarter
A PASSAGE up the Thames by the new Walmer life-boat in March, 1959, gave civil servants in appreciable numbers an opportunity of inspecting one of the boats which has been provided for the Institution by the civil servants' own...
Category: Articles
The New Steam Life-Boat, "City of Glasgow."
THIS Life-boat, a full description of which was given in No. 171 of our Journal last February, was sufficiently far ad- vanced to attend the highly successful " Life - boat Saturday " demonstration which took place in Glasgow on...
Category: Articles
The Armed Trawler Dungeness
NOVEMBER 15-25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.25 A.M. a message was received from the Haisboro’ coastguard that a trawler was ashore near the Haisboro’ Gap. A light southerly breeze was blowing and there was a heavy ground...
The Motor Fishing Boats Provider, Galilee and Pilot Me
FISHING BOATS IN A SNOWSTORM Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 5.30 in the morning of February 28th, 1947, three motor fishing boats put to sea in mod- erate weather. By ten o'clock a strong easterly wind was blowing, with snow showers, the sea was...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.55 P.M. on the llth February, 1939, a telephone message was received that the Goningbeg Light-vessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...
Andaman and Fortune
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 2.55 early on the morning of the 24th of May, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Andaman.
of Gothenburg, had collided with the Panamanian steamer Fortune three...
The Motor Fishing Boats Lizzie and William Cecil
Newcastle, Co. Down.—At about 7 P.M.
on the 21st June, 1938, the coastguard reported that two fishing boats were in difficulties one mile east of Mullartown Point. They were the motor fishing boats Lizzie and William Cecil,...