LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Rockcliff
HARWICH.—Signals having been shown by the Cork Light-vessel, the Life-boat Springwell was launched at 2 P.M. on the 4th November, was taken in tow by the steam-tng Harwich, and proceeded to the Long Sand where the s.s. Rockcliff, of West...
Sutta
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8.44 on the evening of the 29th of July, 1953, after the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 had been launched to the tanker San Cirilo, the coast- guard reported that a yacht was ashore on Red Sands. The...
A Boat
Weston-super-Mare: On Wednesday July 25, 1984, the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Weston Centenary, was on stand-by for the town's air day. She was waiting to carry out a helicopter lift demonstration when a crew...
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morn- ing of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were being tested as she lay at moorings. At half past eleven the coxswain noticed a small boy being carried out to sea in a...
H.M.S. Diver
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.— In the afternoon of the 2nd of March, 1949, three naval vessels were exer- cising off Berwick when one of them, H.M.S. Diver, a tug with a crew of ten, grounded on Standstill Point. Her engine had broken...
Dineiddwg
Aberdeen. At 11.50 p.m. on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Dineiddwg of Aberdeen had grounded at Girdleness in thick fog. The life-boat Ramsay-Dyce proceeded at 12.20 a.m. in a light...
Valkyrie
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m.
2nd September, 1968, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that the motor boat Valkyrie had broken down 100 yards off shore and required assistance. Fifteen minutes later the...
Celine
On the 18th March theLife-boat Lcetitia saved the crew of the schooner Celine, which -was wrecked on the Holm Sand in a strong N.B. gale.
The master having refused to abandon his vessel, the Life-boat had to return to the...
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 5
IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...
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• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...
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