LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

APRIL 29TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. At 11.3 at night a message was received at Cullercoats from the Blyth coastguard that a destroyer was in need of help at the entrance to the Tyne. A strong westnorth- west...

DECEMBER 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 1.50 in the morning the postmaster at Barra reported to the coastguard that he  had heard the siren of a steamer to the southward, and at two in the morning the motor life-boat Lloyd’s put out...

Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....

Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — At 1.10 in the morning on the 17th of Septem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported a radio message from the tug Turmoil that the steamer Bisco 9, which she was tow- ing, had parted her tow and was drift- ing....

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CORK. At 2.20 P.M. the civic guard at Cork reported that a man had picked up a wireless S O S call from the S.S. Vancouver City, of Bideford. She was a vessel of about 5,000 tons and had been...

In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 86, 88,91, the following launches for service were made during the months December, 1967 to February, 1968, inclusive: Aldeburgh...

THE coxswain of the Tynemouth life- boat, Mr. P. Denham Christie, and the crew had the happy idea of presenting to the Seamen's Chapel of Christ Church, North Shields, which is the parish church of Tynemouth, a stained glass window. The...