LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire, and Cromer, Norfolk.—16th May. A steamer was disabled by the loss of her rudder and propeller in bad weather, but was taken in tow by a tug.—Rewards, Skegness, £24 16s. 6d.; Cromer, £20 12s. Qd.
Nora and Harold Haarfager
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The gale of the 20th November was severely felt here, the wind blowing from the E.N.E. with a very heavy sea. At 8 o'clock in the morning the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched, a three-masted schooner, which proved to...
Bonne Adele
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The schooner Bonne Adele, of Isigny, France, bound to that port from Llanelly, with coal, parted her cables and drove ashore about a quarter of a mile west of Hayle Bar during a strong N. gale and heavy sea, at about 3 P.M....
175 Years from Page 91
Some of the lifeboats have taken part in historic events. Plymouth's lifeboat Clemency was present on August 19, 1879, at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.
Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....
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Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Hilton
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Nor' Wester, of Boston U.S
On the 20th April, the ship Nor" Wester, of Boston, U.S., with a crew of 24 men, bound from Cardiff to Monte Video with a cargo of coals, was passing this place in tow of a powerful steam-tug, when the wind sud- denly shifting from S.S...
September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
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Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....