LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gerassimos Vergottis and Van Ostade
JULY 1ST. - PENLEE, AND THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. During thick fog the Greek steamer Gerassimos Vergottis and the Dutch steamer Van Ostade had collided, and the Greek steamer had been badly damaged.
The life-boats could not...
The Royal Sovereign Lightvessel
Eastbourne, Sussex.—The motor lifeboat Jane Holland was launched at 1.20 P.M. on the 1st December, 1938, as the coastguard had reported that the Royal Sovereign Light-vessel was flying the International Code Signal "U.S."—"May...
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
WE think it will be of interest to our readers to have a brief survey of the Life-boat services of the world, so far as the recent statistics of their activities are available. We have, therefore, com- piled the following notes from the...
Category: Articles
H.M. M.V. Platypus
DECEMBER 1ST. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 10 P.M. news was received that a small unknown vessel was ashore about the middle of the East Scar Rocks. It was low tide, and at 11 o’clock one of the crew walked ashore and gave the...
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Two Motor Life-Boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
The 42' Belgian Sloop Colombe
Belgian sloop aground LYMINGTON ILB STATION deputy launching authority received a telephone message at 2035 on Friday, November11, 1977, from HM Coastguard Needles saying that the 42' Belgian sloop Colombe had called on her RT to say...
Twenty-Five Years As Chairman
IN May of this year Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., completed twenty-five years as chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.
There have been, including him, eight chairmen in the 124 years since the Institution...
Category: Articles
Birmingham's Christmas Fair
A CHRISTMAS FAIR was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham, lent by the City Council, on 24th November.
The fair was opened by the Countess of Warwick. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported...
Category: Articles
Isla
Montrose, Angus. At 2.15 on the morning of the 1st August, 1961, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Isla, which had been aground for five hours at the mouth of the Southern Esk, telephoned the honorary secretary to say the engine of the...