LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Simply Supply?
If you are the kind of person who has difficulty finding a pair of matching socks in the morning, spare a thought for staff at the new Lifeboat Support Centre in Poote In this one giant building the RNLI stores spares for lifeboats,...
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Eglantine
At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with...
San Casto
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At ap- proximately 5.30 on the afternoon of the 4th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a member of the crew of the tanker San Casto, of London, had been injured. At 6.10 the life- boat Jeanie Speirs put out...
Tatam II
New Brighton, Cheshire. — During the early afternoon of the 15th of September, 1948, the Hoy lake coastguard reported that a barge had broken away from her tug in Liverpool Bay and had anchored, but was dragging towards the Burbo Bank, and...
Contango, of Woodbridge
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 8 p.m. on 13th May, 1967, the yacht Contango of Woodbridge was reported aground on the Newcombe sandbank and was flying a distress signal. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick was launched at 8.25 in a fresh north...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.54 p.m. on 28th October, 1965, a ship in the vicinity of Rough Towers reported having seen a distress signal from the Towers. It was further reported that a private radio transmitting station had asked for...
Gerco
JAN. 25TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.16 P.M. on the 24th January the coastguard reported a vessel making signals on her siren. The night was misty with a light S.S.E. wind and a moderate swell. Later the coastguard reported that a...
The Word "National" In Our Title
AT first sight it might seem quite unnecessary to explain the meaning of a word which is so descriptive and so obvious in its application to the work of the Institution as the word " National." The operations of the Life-boat...
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Cecillia
At 8 A.M.
on the 12th February the Coastguard reported a barge at anchor near the South East Buxey Sand, with her fore- mast and head gear carried away, but there was no signal indicating that help was required. The barge...
The Sisters
The James Stevens No. 9 Life-boat was called out by distress signals from the Nore Light- vessel at about 5.30 A.M. on the 8th February. On the arrival of the Life- boat the master at the Nore reported that he was repeating signals from the...