LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
PORTMADOC.—On the morning of the 9th of December, 1854, the wind blowing hard from N.N.W. at the time, two large threemasted vessels were observed from Portmadoc to be on shore on the St. Patrick's Causeway, a dangerous shoal of several...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1885
THE abstracts from the Wreck Register for the year ended the 30th June 1885, which, owing to circumstances, were not published by the Board of Trade in 1886, have now been issued, and are full of interesting matter. We propose, in ac-...
Category: Articles
The Hurricanes In the West Indies
ALTHOUGH the scene of the recent terrible disasters, caused by the hurricanes in the West Indies, is far distant from the sphere of the operations of THE NATIONAL LIF£-BOAT INSTITUTION, which finds ample scope for the full exercise of...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 30TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £3 18s. 6d..
Our Life-Boats
Around our iron-bound coasts wild waters rave, High revel holds the Storm King night and day; All honour, then, to those who dare to brave The rush and fury of his deadly sway! When seething billows toss their spumy crests, Lashed into...
Category: Poetry
After the Gale
The Lamorna ashore at Christchurch. Her crew of fourteen had been rescued near The Needles by the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight life-boat (See page 308). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to St. Ives for the Service to the Alba
By a strange coincide the Hungarian Minister in London was notified by his government on the day of the disaster at St. Ives of the awards which it had made to St. Ives for the service to the Alba in January, 1938. Though the Alba was...
Category: Awards
A Surf Ski
Surf ski rider HM COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of St Agnes ILB station at 1626 on Sunday, July 17, 1977, that a surf ski rider was in difficulties off Porthtowan, about 3'/4 miles south west from St Agnes. The DLA...
Pet, of Chester
Thurso.
Shortly before 10 P.M. on 18th March the news reached Thurso that a schooner, the Pet, of Chester, had gone ashore on the rocky headland of Brims Ness, five miles away. The night was foggy and very dark, with a...
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Stranded in cave THREE CLIFF CLIMBERS, missing west of Anvil Point, were reported to Swanage lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1733 on Saturday November 29, 1980; the station's 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat J. Reginald Corah, was launched...