LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E , chairman of the Institution, presenting the life-boat to the station. On his right is Lady Baring (See page 403). - View image in PDF

LLANDDWYN.—On the 23rd November, the Life-boat John Gray Sell went out through a very heavy surf and rescued 9 of the crew of the three-masted schooner Fred. Eugene, of Portland, Maine, which was in distress off Llanddwyn Point, having lost...

Blackpool, Lancashire.—At about 9.50 P.M. on the 30th July, 1938, when the wind was freshening and the sea getting up, a cabin cruiser was seen to the south of the Central Pier. As she was approaching a lee shore, she was kept under...

Number: A tug and a Grimsby fishing vessel were in collision near Bull Light on the morning of April 1.

Being informed that there were people in the sea, Number lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson City of Bradford III,... - View image in PDF

RUNSWICK. — The Life-boat Cape of Good Hope was launched at 2 30 A.M. on the 29th January, while a < moderate gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a rough sea, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig John Pitcairn, of...

THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....

A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...

MABLETHORPE. — The fishing-smack Primrose, of Grimsby, stranded on the Knoll off Mablethorpe, during a S.S.E. wind, at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of January, 1885. She made signals of distress, and the Life-boat Heywood put off to her assistance, and...