LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
On the 19th January, at 6 P.M., during heavy gale at "W.N.W., signals of distress were observed from a vessel at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat was thereupon launched, and on gaining the vessel it was ascertained that a boat which had...
Escape
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.
The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...
Eliza Bell
HOLYHEAD.—A telegram was received at 8.50 A.M. on the 6th September, reporting a vessel in distress half a mile from the South Stack. The signal for the Lifeboat was at once fired, and in seven minutes the Thomas Fielden was launched, and...
Mersey
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 2nd April, while a strong breeze was blowing from the S., the schooner Mersey, of Dublin, bound from Waterford, in ballast, for Point of Ayre, anchored near the rocks outside Conister. She was then in a dangerous...
Rug Making for the Institution
IN The Lifeboat for December, 1931 it was announced that the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, had very kindly offered to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip mats in aid of the Institu- tion's funds....
Category: Donations
The Moss Rose
On the morning of the 7th June, daring foggy weather, an intimation was received that a steamer had stranded on the eastern side of Carmel Point. The Cemlyu Lifeboat B. J. Nicholson was launched at 10 o'clock, and found that the vessel...
Oak
ALDEBURGH.—The ketch Oak, of Lowestoft, was observed disabled and shipping heavy seas while a strong E. gale was blowing, on the 4th January. The Lifeboat Aldeburgh was launched at about 12.40 P.M., and overtook the ketch near the Whiting...
Caroline
On the 23rd February, the steam Lifeboat was called out by signals from the Formby and Crosby light vessels, and on reaching the latter found she had a shipwrecked crew on board. Their vessel, the schooner Caroline, of Fowey, had lost her...
A Dinghy (1)
The Lizard—Cadgwith, Cornwall - At 1.47 p.m. on 16th April, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a skin diver was in difficulties off the Lizard outer rocks and was drifting away from his dinghy.
The...
A Sailing Dinghy
Coverack, Cornwall - At 9.52 p.m.
on 9th April, 1969, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy on passage from Falmouth to Coverack was overdue.
At 10 o'clock the life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was...