LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations, and New Life-Boats
Southwold, Suffolk.—A new life-boat, 40 feet long, and similar, in other respects, to the one stationed at Scratby, described in the 15th Number of this Journal, has been placed at Southwold, in lieu of the life-boat placed there in 1852, on...
Category: Articles
Centenaries and Naming Ceremonies
The following life-boat stations celebrated their centenaries this year: Wey- mouth, Dorset; St. David's, Pembrokeshire; Salcombe, South Devon; and Wells, Norfolk.
At Selsey, Sussex, on 10th June the 48-foot 6-inch...
Category: Articles
The Screw Steamer Altona
About 1.30 A.M. of the 23rd October, the night being stormy and peculiarly dark, the wind at east (dead on shore), the lights of a vessel on the Beacon Rocks, Eoker, to the north, of the entrance to Sunderland Harbour, were observed from the...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
LIFEBOATS, IT IS OFTEN SAID, put OUt when other vessels are seeking the shelter of harbour. An example of how a lifeboat was able to carry out a mission while other well-found vessels were unable even to leave harbour occurred on the night...
Category: Articles
A New Type of Life-Boat
Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the "Schiller."
ON Friday, the 7th May last, occurred another of those fearful calamities which, like the foundering of the London and the Northfleet, ever and anon startle the whole British community, and serve to remind us of the uncertainty and...
Category: Articles
March (1)
MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...
Category: Services
A Small Boat (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the afternoon of the 9th September, 1938, a small boat carrying two men and a seven-year-old girl capsized about three-quarters of a mile off Shoreham beach. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Bosworth
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1960, the shipping agents for the s.s. Bosworth, of London, asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could be launched to bring ashore a man from the...
Yarra Yarra
ROSSLARE HARBOUR, WEXFORD.—The schooner Yarra Yarra, of Skerries, bound from Newport to Wexford with a cargo of coal, was driven ashore near the Rosslare Lighthouse in a strong E.S.E. gale and very rough sea, on the night of the 7th March....