LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Naval Seaplane W2670
JULY 13TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 5 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea half a mile east of Buchanness, and the motor life-boat .Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched at 5.5 P.M...
Delphic Eagle, of Monrovia
At 8.45 p.m. on 13th June, 1968, the coxswain learnt that a sick man aboard the m.v. Delphic Eagle, at anchor in Bull anchorage, needed medical assistance. The life-boat City of Bradford HI, with a doctor on board, was launched at 9.20 in a...
The Whitburn Fishing Boats
On the 5th January, the Whitburn fishing-boats were caught in a gale, and had to leave their lines and run for the shore, which, with some difficulty, all of them but one succeeded in reaching. The crew of that boat had become utterly...
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Star of Hope
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.15 on the evening of the 13th December, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that the drifter Star of Hope was stranded on the Scroby Sands and was asking for help. There was a...
The Large Steamer Hammershus
During a thick fog on the night of the 13th October a large steamer named the Hammershus belonging to Copenhagen, stranded in Lamorna Cove. At the time a moderate S.S.E. wind was blowing with a rough sea. The Life-boat Elizabeth and Blanche...
Juta, of Glasgow
OCTOBER 7TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 4.55 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was making distress signals between three and five miles to the south-west-by-west. The weather was calm, but there was fog...
524 and The S.S. Capito (1)
OCTOBER 11TH. - APPLEDORE, CLOVELLY, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 3.50 in the afternoon the naval officer-incharge at Appledore asked the life-boat to be in readiness to launch. A south-west gale was blowing, with a very rough sea, and...
New Ways of Raising Money
One of the objects of selling life-boat souvenirs is to remind people of the service and to draw attention to its work. Recently Mr. Barrie T. Kendall, C. Eng., M.R.I.N.A., Mem. S.N.A.M.E., M.N.E.C. Inst., A.M.I.Mar E., of Waltonon- Thames,...
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Batory, of Gydnia
At 6.30 p.m. on ist August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Batory of Gydnia had embarked a sick man from the weather ship Weather Adviser. The life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31) was launched at 8 o'...