LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...

PATIENT AND NURSE TAKEN OFF ISLAND Longhope, Orkneys. At 9.20 a.m. on Monday the 12th of August, 1963, the Island doctor told the honorary secretary that a seriously ill patient required immediate hospital attention. There was a light...

On the night of the 16th September, 1859, the brig Eagle, of Sunderland, anchored in a leaky state off Bridlington Quay, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward. Finding the water fast gaining on them, the master was compelled to...

DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...

DEC. 19TH. -GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. At 11 A.M. a message was received from the Ballantrae Coastguard that the S.S. Dublin, of Belfast, had stranded on the Breast Rocks near Turnberry, about five miles north of Girvan. A light easterly breeze was...

WHITBY.—At 11.45 A.M. on the 6th December, during a strong gale from the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, with snow, the brig Star of Hope, of and for Newcastle from Dieppe, in ballast, became embayed between Whitby and Upgang Rocks. She then ran for...

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 73 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,913 June 9th, 1932 Annual Meeting.

THE Hundred and Eighth...

1st February to 30th April, 1936.

Greater London.

On 1st March the following branches in the South-East of England were transferred to Greater London : Southend, Romford and Hornchurch, Upminster and...