LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Harbour Motor Launch Scout
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of October, 1955, a message was received from the pier- head at Ramsden dock that the local harbour motor launch Scout, which had a crew of two and which had put off to a dumb dredger...
Lom
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 23rd October a flash light was observed from a vessel ashore on the Knock Sands. The Herbert Ingram Life-boat was launched as soon as possible, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the S.SE. at the time,...
Imogene & Harmony
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seas accompanied a whole S.W. gale on the 15th March, and soon after daylight signals were observed from two vessels in the roads. The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was immediately ordered out and...
Prize Winning Essay
A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.
The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...
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The S.S. Peruviana
The Life- boat, Ulinor Roget, was launched at 4.30 A.M. on the 9th February, in re- sponse to signals from the s.s. Peruuiana, of West Hartlepool.
On arrival at the vessel, it transpired that the rudder had been damaged,...
The S.S. Strathroy
At 10.15 P.M. on the 13th February a message was received from the Coast- guard stating that a large steamer was ashore at Street Gate, four miles below Dartmouth. A very dense fog prevailed at the time, and the crew of the Life- boat were...
London International Boat Show 1979
EARL'S COURT, JANUARY 4-14 THE COMBINATION OF BLIZZARDS and transport strikes at the beginning of January might have seemed enough to scupper any exhibition—but not the London Boat Show. In spite of these difficulties and a stand which...
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Coronella
Making water WICK COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Thurso lifeboat station at 1355 on Tuesday September 7,1982, that the fishing vessel Coronella was making water off Duncansby Head andthe lifeboat was asked to launch with pumps...
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The S.S. St. Kenneth
STRANDED ON THE BREAKWATER Holyhead, Anglesey.—A minute be- fore midnight on the night of the 31st of March, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. St. Kenneth, of Dublin, anchored off the breakwater, was drag- ging her anchors...