LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
A Dinghy (3)
DINGHY IN DANGER At 3.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1965, as soon as the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin reached the pier from the previous service, a visitor reported to the motor mechanic that a dinghy was in difficulties in Loch Nevis. The...
October (1)
NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. Four men were out fishing in the motor fishing boat Little Old Lady on the 14th of July, 1943, and at about 8.30 in the morning saw a parachute from a Thunderbolt aeroplane floating down about two miles south of Peacehaven....
Category: Services
Summary of the Year's Work
(Including those in which no service was rendered.
Launches before the outbreak of war on 3rd September - - - 266
Launches after the outbreak of war ...
Category: Annual Reports
Index to the Branches
PAGE ABERDEEN . . . .779 ABERDOVEY . . . .755 ABEBSOCB . . . .723 ABEETSTWITH . . . 722 ACOCK'S GEBKN . .771 ALDEBUBGH .... 765 INDEX TO Th PAGE IE BRANCHES.
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Category: Branches
The S.S. Asse
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
The Cypriot Coaster Primrose
Hurricane in Straits of Dover DOVER STRAIT COASTGUARD received a Mayday call at 2204 on Monday, December 1, 1975, from the 1,199-ton phosphate loaded Cypriot coaster Primrose indicating loss of steering gear in a position some 3 miles east...
A History of Bridlington Life-Boats
UNDER the title Men of the Storm, Mr.
H.'E. Whittaker, of Bridlington, has written the history of the Bridlington life-boat station. Mr. Whittaker has also produced and published the book himself and is generously...
Category: Articles
Florence Nightingale, of London
On the night of the llth June, in a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brig Florence Nightingale, of London, coal laden, stranded on the Sizewell Bank, near Thorpeness. A tar-barrel being burned, was seen from the shore, and the Thorpe life-boat...