LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wanderer and The Nautilus
Again, on the 10th May, the fishing boats were oTertaken by a heavy sea, which sprang up very suddenly and which was felt all along the east coast of Scotland.
The boats made with all speed for the harbour. One of them, the...
Hausa
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At 5.30 A.M. on the 14th February,- 1939, the life-boat watchman reported that a vessel had run ashore on the end of Spurn Point. The coxswain immediately went to the beach, where he saw the steam trawler Hausa, of...
News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December
Greater London.
ASHFORD.—Flag Whist Drive.
BARKING.—Life-boat in the procession celebrating the incorporation of Barking as a Borough.
BRONDESBUBY. — Address to Young People's League...
Category: Branches
News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON.—Annual Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild and Life-boat Day workers on 29th April. Speakers : The Duchess of Hamilton and Brandon, a Vice- President of the Guild,...
Category: Branches
Aberlemno
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 2nd April the Life-boat Co-Operator No. 2 was called out in squally weather to the assistance of the barque Aberlemno, of Swansea, coal laden from Barry, which had stranded on a point called Egg Bock, W. of Combmartin, in...
Three Rowing Boats and a Motor Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, members of the life-boat crew and others on shore noticed that three rowing boats, each with a crew of three, appeared to be having difficulty in making the shore....
Rachel and Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 12th of December,1957, the coxswain saw that the weather was deteriorating and asked permission of the honorary secretary to launch the life-boat to escort two fishing cobles still at...
The Record of 1927. A Year of Conspicuous Services
A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
Category: Annual Reports
Postscript (From Page 119)
the final fruition of this modern policy.
I recall a conversation I had with Cunninghame-Graham in the early days of my lifeboat career, when he said, 'It is not small boats, as at present, stationed in the bights, but...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (From Page 165)
Lifeboat Services (from page 165) Shetland Islands, that she was aground on Bressay Island in heavy seas and needed help. The Coastguard were already on the telephone to the honorary secretary of Lerwick lifeboat, who asked that maroons be...
Category: Services