LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Clora
During a thick fog in the early morning of the 22nd June, the s.s. Clara, of London, bound from Malta to Rotterdam with a cargo of grain, collided with another vessel in the vicinity of the Royal Sovereign Light - vessel. She was seriously...
A Motor Boat
FAILED TO START At 9.15 p.m. on the following day, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down between the North pier and Wreck buoy, and the crew were waving for help. Two minutes...
Gannett
WEXFOED, IRELAND.—The Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was launched on the" llth March in a strong S.S.W.
breeze and rough sea to the assistance of the yawl Gannett, of Wexford, which had grounded about a quarter of a...
Questa
Margate, Kent.—At 7.39 on the evening of the 5th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser was ashore about half a mile north of South Margate Buoy. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was...
Onward
Douglas, Isle of Man. At 10.15 on the night of the 2nd of October, 1957, the harbour master reported that a flare had been seen two and a half miles off Douglas Head. At 10.25 the life- boat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 was launched in a...
Daphne
Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...
A Steamer (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. — 14th November. A new steamer had run ashore while on trial, but was got off by tugs.—Rewards, £6 12s..
A Trawler
9th May. A trawler was shewing a misplaced trawl- ing signal, which was mistaken for a distress signal.—Rewards, £16 12s. 3d..
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
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Life-Boats In New Zealand
EVER since the first pioneers settled in Canterbury, and sailing ships carried their cargo up the Heathcote River to Ferrymead, the ever-changing Sumner Bar has been notorious for its vicious moods and the number of lives and ships it has...
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