LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.

The naval officer-in-charge, Ramsgate, asked that a doctor should be taken to the American steamer James E. Haviland. A strong southwest wind was blowing and the sea was very rough. The motor...

ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...

THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...

• Writers of fictional sea stories invent a hero, perhaps a villain and a few horrendous storms, then throw in a little romance to hold the interest of the reader. Life, of course, does not fit such neat patterns and only two parts of the...

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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER OCT. 10TH.- THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 4.20 in the morning the watchman saw a vessel heading for the beach. He gave the alarm and the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 4.55. A gale had been...

TWO LIFE-BOATS STAND BY DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Padstow, Cornwall, and Appledore, Devon. At 8.47 on the morning of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the Padstow honorary secretary that the motor vessel Nimrod of Groningen had been...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 7.35 on the morning of the llth of February, 1956, the motor mechanic heard a distress message on his wireless set from the tug Rumania. The tug said that she was aground on the Long Sand and needed help. At...