LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Life-Boat Families. The Wiggs, of Kessingland, and the Stone-Houses, of Teesmouth and Redcar
THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.
Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He...
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Thomas Reed Publications.
'FORTH TYNE NORTHWESTERLY BACKING SOUTHERLY. 4 OCCASIONALLY 5 IN FORTH AT FIRST, SHOWERS. GOOD" RAIN LATER, GOOD .UATSTRATING THE SHIPPING FORK :AS1 Peter Collyer The words are evocative. They are part of our cultural heritage....
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Service In Appalling Conditions
AT 12.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1956, the Spurn Point coast- guard rang up the Humber life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Stevonia, of Goole, had wirelessed that her cargo had shifted and that she had a heavy list...
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Ceremonies
Quay, Bembridge Harbour on Thursday, September 10, 1987.
The Foundation has also provided two Arun class boats, one stationed at Stornoway and the other in the RNLI's relief fleet.
Sir Max Aitken had...
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On the Northumberland Coast Station Barometers
BY JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ., F.R.S.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND proposed in 1859 to the President of the British Meteorological Society, THOMAS SOPWITH, Esq., M.A.,F.R.S., the establishment of Meteorological...
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Life-Boat Days In 1923
500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
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A Boat
Swamped LOCHGILPHEAD POLICE informed Clyde Coastguard on the afternoon of Sunday September 11, 1983, that a report had been received of a boat in distress in Loch Fyne, between Ardrishaig and Kilfinnan. Further investigations were made and...
Monte Carmelo
At midnight on the 13th November, it then blowing a hard gale from W.S.W., signals indicating that a vessel was in distress were exhibited from the Gull Lightship, and the North Deal Life- boat Van Kook launched forthwith. She proceeded...
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