LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Samuel Dixon
WICKLOW.—The Bolert T. Garden Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 1st November, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Samuel Dixon, of "Wexford, bound from Llanelly for Wexford with a cargo of coal, which had shown a...
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North Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.53 on the evening of the 30th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed by the local Trinity House depot that a man had been taken ill in the Longstone lighthouse. As the sea was too rough...
National Sponsored Swim 197Ii72 Made £20286 for Rnli Funds on May 10 Norman Crumble Chairman Cac Presented a Plaque to Ernest Warrington MBE
National sponsored swim 197II72 made £20,286for RNLl funds. On May 10 Norman Crumble, chairman CAC, presented a plaque to Ernest Warrington, MBE, president ASA, in gratitude for the generous support of the Amateur Swimming Association... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hartside and Kathleen
FLAMBOROUGH.—At noon on the 27th March a telephone message was received from Bridlington asking that the Life-boat might take provisions to the steamer Hartside, of Newcastle, which was lying off Sewerby. A gale of wind was blowing from the...
Shoreline
Shoreline Section FOR SHORELINE each new year is welcomed in by the Boat Show at Earls Court, early in January. As usual a voluntary Shoreline team was manning our stand for the full 11 days, and very well they did, too. We made an excellent...
Category: Articles
Rambler
ALDBOROUGH, SUFFOLK.—On the 24th October the schooner Rambler, of Folkestone, was seen to be running for the shore at Aldborough with a flag of distress in her rigging, during a heavy gale of wind from S.S.W., and a very rough sea. She...
Heather Belle
When the ketch Heather Belle, of Appledore, was coming in over the bar on the 28th December she ran ashore on the Middle Ridge.
Signals of distress were made, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was...
Ellie Park
— The schooner Ellie Park of Barrow, bound from the Dee to Red Bay in the north of Ireland encountered very heavy weather and when trying to make port had her sails blown away in a heavy squall.
The anchor was run out, but...
Effecting Communication With Stranded Vessels
THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...
Category: Articles
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles