LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dowsing Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire - At 11.52 a.m.
on 28th April, 1967, it was learned that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel hadbeen injured in a fall and that medical assistance was required. With a doctor aboard, the life-boat City...
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Peggy
Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
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The S.S. Flimston (1)
MARCH 9TH - 29TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground. She was the S.S. Flimston, of over 4,500 tons, laden with steel and with a crew of 38. She...
A Smal Boat
Small boat swamped ON MONDAY EVENING, AugUSt 18, 1975, the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Whitby Coastguard that a small boat which they had had under observation had been swamped a quarter of a mile to seaward...
Three Russian Seamen Rescued Off Rocks
ON the 16th of October, 1958, the Soviet trawler Urbe, which was believed to have a crew of about twenty-five, sank near the Holm of Skaw, an uninhabited rocky islet off the northeastern corner of the Shetland island of Unst. The trawler was...
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Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild. H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron
H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron.AT the end of 1923, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had already shown her personal interest in the Life-boat Service by becoming Pre- sident of the Kensington Branch on...
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A Polish Trawler
Arbroath, Angus - At 7 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, it was reported that a Polish trawler was aground on Bell rock. At 7.13 the life-boat, The Duke of Montrose was launched. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat came alongside the...