LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John, of Hartlepool
The Thomas Wilson life-boat also went out three times to the brig John, of Hartlepool, which had gone ashore at Cape Kerr Point; and on the last occasion was tile means of rescuing the master, who had remained on board helpless after his...
Over £241 Was Collected In a Bottle at the Jersey Tavern In Weymouth Commander Barney Morris Honorary Secretary of Weymouth Station With Mr and Mrs John W
Over £241 was collected in a bottle at the Jersey Tavern in Weymouth. Commander Barney Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth station, with Mr and Mrs John Woodrow, smashed open the bottle just before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
The Samtampa remembered On browsing through the Summer 1992 edition of THE LIFEBOAT I saw an article refering to the Mumbles lifeboat and Samtampa tragedy.
At that time I was stationed at Porthcawl with the RAF No. 1105...
Category: Correspondence
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club Past-President, Hands Over a Cheque for £18,000 Towards a New Life-Boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (Left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League Head
Mr. Herbert Statham, Westminster West Rotary Club past-president, hands over a cheque for £18,000 towards a new life-boat to Mr. W. T. Bishop (left), R.N.L.I., at Royal Overseas League headquarters, St. James's. The money was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Acquire, of Inverness
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 30th January the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was making for the harbour, and that as there was a heavy swell running at the harbour mouth, and the boat was a stranger, it would be...
Zair, of Maldon
AUGUST 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties east of Clacton pier, and that the Clacton life-boat was unable to launch, owing to the lowness of the tide. He asked...
Valhalla and a Yacht
Yacht towed in THE HIGH WINDS OF Sunday August 11, 1985, which brought about a bronze medal service at St Peter Port, Guernsey and vellum services at Weymouth and Ramsgate (already reported in earlier issues), and which involved 39 stations...
City of Ghent
Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.27 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1955, the motor vessel City of Ghent, of Dublin, wirelessed that she had run ashore about three miles north-east- by-east of Lizard, but had later re- floated and was...
Empress of India
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Esk, of Montrose
The North Briton life-boat at Donna Nook brought ashore 6 men from the schooner Esk, of Montrose, which had gone ashore on the sands off Donna Nook.