LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helen Mary
Exmouth, Devonshire.—At about 12.20 A.M. on the 2nd June, 1938, the coastguard reported that a small vessel off Dawlish appeared to be in difficulties and was drifting towards the land. A west gale was blowing, with a heavy swell and squalls...
Prosper
On the morn- ing of the llth January, the steam trawler Prosper, of Ostend, bound from Ostend to the Orkney fishing grounds, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, increasing later to a whole gale....
Royal
OCT. 12TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHscene, UMBERLAND. At 5.33 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands.
The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell.
At...
The S.S. City of Kobe
DEC. 19TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 3.5 A . M .
news was received by wireless from the Cross Sand Light-vessel, through the coastguard, that an explosion had occurred, followed by red flares, about two...
The S.S. Speke
. JANUARY 1 0TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.45 P.M. the lights were seen of a ship ashore on Gansey Point, about half a mile N.E. of Port St. Mary breakwater, and the motor life-boat Sir Heath Harrison was launched at 8.30 P.M. A...
The S.S. Orlock Head
JULY 28TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.45 A.M. information was received from the Wick coastguard that a steamer was on fire N.N.W. of Strathy Head.
A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The...
The S.S. Barnhill
DECEMBER 7TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 4.55 A.M. the Fairlight coastguard reported that two soldiers were either stranded on the Regiment on the wreck. They had gone out in wreck of the S.S. Barnhill, off Langley Point, a...
S.S. Paris
FEBRUARY 15TH . - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. At 6.45 A.M . the coastguard reported a vessel in distress at Robin Hood’s Bay, and at 7.30 A.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
A light S.E. wind was blowing,...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th February, 1885.
EDWARD BIRKBECK, Esq., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Medical Aspects of the Life-Boat Service
ESTABLISHED by Sir William Hillary in 1824 when the seas around the British Isles were crowded with small sailing vessels, fishing and carrying cargoes, the R.N.L.I. was primarily concerned with saving lives from shipwreck. One of the...
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