LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A long trawl
Second Coxswain Martyn Hagan was just sitting down to his tea on 26 June when a call came through from Humber Coastguard. ‘We have a little job for you,’ the Coastguard said. The ‘little’ job involved rescuing the 18m Hartlepool-registered...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st January to the 31st March 1878
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 4th January, at about 6 A.M., the s.s. Balmoral, of London, ran ashore on the North Sands, off Hartle- pool, at half-ebb tide. At low water she was high and dry; but when the tide rose the wind and sea began to make. At...
Category: Services
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 23rd of March, 1954, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Princess Royal pre- sented...
Category: Meetings
Melita
On the 19th December, the No. 2 Lifeboat put off and rescued the crew of 6 men from the brig Melita, of Blyth, which had stranded during a fresh N.W.
breeze and heavy sea. The Life-boat also brought ashore 10 beachmen who...
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Galway Bay - At 9.15 p.m. on loth July, 1966, the life-boat was requested to convey a seriously ill man to hospital on the mainland. At 10 o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched in a westerly breeze and smooth sea. It...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
Category: Services
A Rubber Dinghy
NOVEMBER 26TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON. A rubber dinghy had been reported firing distress flares, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, Appledore, £9 12s. ; Clovelly, £20 12s..
The Gear a Life-Boat Carries
Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....
Category: Articles
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...