LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The White Star Cargo Vessel The Bardic
About 1.30 in the morning of 31st August, in very thick weather, with a moderate sea, the White Star cargo vessel, the Bardic, of 7,000 tons, ran on the Maenheck Rock, about half a mile south-west of the Life-boat Station at The Lizard. The...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 42 years as coxswain of the Aberystwyth life-boat, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service and a pension, commuted to a gratuity at his request.
To CHARLES Mom, on...
Category: Awards
Reviews
Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges...
Category: Donations
'It's real-life drama'
Ace Bhatti, actor and former lifeboat crew member
When I asked if I could help out around the inshore lifeboat station at Staithes and Runswick, they said ‘no – we need you on the...
Category: Articles
Lives Lost In 1854
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 1,549.
Of these, 13 were lost in the Embla, wrecked near Blyth in a snow-storrn, on the 7th of January; 290 in the Tayleur, wrecked at...
Category: Articles
The Institution and Ship Owners. A Comparison Between Life-Boat Services and Contributions
A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIFE-BOAT SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I AM publishing here a list of the ships to the assistance of which the Life-boats have...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WINTERTON.—The No.' 2 Life-boat Husland was launched at 11 o'clock on the night of the 4th October, in response to signals of distress shown by the brig Catherine, of Whitby, bound from Portsmouth for Sunderland, which -was...
Category: Services
Gondolier Princess and Flying Fish
TWO BOATS TOWED IN A ROUGH SEA Ramsgate, Kent.—At 9.45 on the night of the 21st of August, 1947» the coast- guard telephoned that flares had been seen three-quarters of a mile east-south- east of Kingsgate look-out, and the motor...
Westward
Margate, Kent. — On the night of the 3rd October the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that information had been received from the Tongue Light-vessel that a vessel was dragging her anchor and making signals of distress. A south...