LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Huiberdina Gijsbertha
Aberdeen. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of June, 1959, the coast- guard reported that a message had been received from the Dutch vessel De Hoop that another Dutch vessel Huiberdina Gijsbertha of Katwijk a/Kee was aground on the north...
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Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 19th of De- cember, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Irish Lights Office asking if the life-boat would land a sick man from Slyne Head lighthouse. At 2.15 the life-boat...
S.S. Sea Minstrel
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1950, the Port Medical Officer advised the life- boat coxswain that the cargo vessel S.S.
Sea Minstrel, of Dover, was expected off the port at one o'clock...
The S.S. Dalryan
DE C . 1 S T . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.55 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sinking as a result of enemy action three miles S.S.W. of the Tongue Light-vessel.
A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea....
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the September and October Meetings of.the Committee of Management.
Torbay, Devon.—At about 10 P.M. on the 15th May, Miss Patience Trout, of Hallsands, saw, by telescope, signals of distress...
Category: Services
Stuck truck
1 March: Courtown, Co Wexford The inshore crew went to the rescue of the driver of a 25-tonne dump truck that had become submerged at high tide on Ardamine Beach. The crew arrived to find the driver waving from...
Category: Articles
A Launching Accident
ON August 16th, a Centenary Demon- stration was to be held at Whitby, the Motor Life-boat and one of the Pulling and Sailing Life-boats to be launched, and an exhibition of Life-boat models to be held in the Life-boat House, but it was...
Category: Articles
Diloma
CHINESE SEAMEN RESCUED Sundeiiand, Durham.—At 1.40 in the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1947, the Sunderland coastguard telephoned that the Seaham coastguard had re- ported that the motor vessel Diloma, a tanker, had struck submerged...
Admiral Sir Wilfrid R. Patterson
K.C.B., C.V.O., C.B.E., who died on the 5th of December, 1954, at the age of 61, had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management for seven years.
He first joined the committee in 1947 as an ex-officio member when he was...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Seaford
Margate, Kent. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1959, the watchman of the local pilot cutter informed the honorary secretary that a radio message had been received from the s.s. Seaford of London, asking for a doctor, as the...