LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pentland Swell
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 6.23 on the morning of the 27th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishjng vessel had been seen approaching Wick from the south- east, although the harbour had been closed to shipping...
Clai
Dover, Kent. At 6.10 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguardinformed the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning red flares two miles off Leathercoat Point. A Dutch tug had gone to her help and had connected a tow line....
Exchange
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.8 on the evening of the 24th of December, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received from the police at Sheerness that shouts for help had been heard near the Harty ferry in...
Centenaries
In October, 1967, the Stromness life-boat station celebrated its centenary.
The Duke of Atholl, Convener of the Scottish Life-boat Council, presented a vellum on behalf of the Council to the Stromness ladies' life-boat...
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St. Lucia
At 4.55 p.m. on 8th December, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an attempt to take an injured man off the trawler St. Lucia by helicopter had been unsuccessful owing to the bad weather, and requested that the...
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MAY 2 8TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.50 P.M. a telephone message was received from the Milford Haven naval base that a soldier had fallen over the cliff at Mill Bay. The weather was fine with a northerly wind and a...
A New Life-Boat Fleet
Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...
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A Speed Boat
RUNAWAY SPEEDBOAT THE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, inshore rescue boat had an unusual service on l l th August when 'the Coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a speedboat was going round in circles' about one and a half miles...
Hunter
On the 8th January at 7.15 A.M., the Harbour-master at Ramsgate received a telegram from the coastguard officer at Harwich thus worded: "Large ship ashore on Shipwash: Liverpool tug going out, but got no Life-boat." The Ramsgate...
Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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