LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Martin Gust
On the night of the 5th April the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 was called out to a vessel which had stranded on the Black- tail Spit, but on reaching the vessel the master declined any assistance, as he hoped to float his vessel clear on...
Egremont
MARGATE.—On the evening of the 18th March the coastguards reported that a vessel off the Margate Sandhead buoy had just lost her foremast and gear, bnt was not showing any signal for assistance.
A strong gale was then...
The S.S. Bodil
The s.s. Bodll, of Esbjerg, was totally wrecked on the ! Haisborough Sands on the 27th May whilst bound from Sweden to South- | ampton with a cargo of timber. A i strong N.E. breeze was blowing at the time and the sea was rough. A...
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United States Life-Saving Service
It appears from the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1893, issued a few months since from the Government Printing Office at Washington, that there are now 243...
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Rescue from a Turkish Steamer
AT 3.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1955, Coxswain William Cox. of Wells, was told by the coastguard that a message had been received from the S.S. Richmond Queen, of London, that the S.S. Zor, of Istanbul, was in distress six miles...
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H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.
During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 11.—Mr. James Hartley Burton, Honorary Secretary of the Beaumaris Life-Boat Station
ME. JAMES HARTLEY BURTON has been Honorary Secretary of a Life-boat Station, first at Penmon in Anglesey —the Station was closed in 1915—and then at Beaumaris, for over 20 years.
He has brought to the work a life-long...
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Dagenite Batteries Ltd
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DAGENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take...
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Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
Twin Mermaid Type 595 TP TURBO-PLUS Marine Diesels now installed in this craft.
To be followed by similar installations in new 44 foot Steel Lifeboats Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd THAMES MARINA THAMES DITTON SURREY Telephone:...
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