LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Lighters
DECEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - SOUTHENDON - SEA, ESSEX. At eight at night information was received from the king’s harbour master at Sheerness that two lighters had parted from their tug and were adrift, with two men on board. A moderate northeast...
A Royal engagement
Lifeboat naming ceremonies are always significant occasions, but few have attracted as much attention as the one that took place at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, Anglesey, in February.
The world’s media mingled with over...
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Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...
A Dakota Air Ambulance
JULY 27TH - 28TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Shortly after six in the evening the coastguard telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed on the foreshore at Cairngarrock Bay. The weather was fine, with a slight north-north-west breeze and a...
Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
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Family Profile By Joan Davies
THEY CAME FROM FRANCE, the TartS of Dungeness. They were Huguenots and it was in the days before religious toleration. So when persecution became too great they took to their boats, being fishing people, and sailed across the Channel to...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WINTERTON, NORFOLK.—A new sailingboat of the Norfolk type has been despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION to Winterton, to take the place of one stationed there some years since. The new craft was built by Messrs. BEECHING...
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Urgent
At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was running; so...
Crocodile
PENARTH.—At 7.30 P.M. on the 7th March, in answer to signals of distress, the Life-boat Joseph Denman was launched, and boarded the brig Crocodile, of Dartmouth, which vessel had got ashore on the west end of Cardiff sands. A strong gale was...
The S.S. Gorm
LOWESTOFT.—On the 10th November, at about 4 A.M., signals of distress were seen from a vessel on the Holm Sand.
The No. 1 Life-boat Samuel Plimsoll was launched, and on reaching the sand found the s.s. Gorm, of Copenhagen,...