LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Greek S.S. Aegaion
SERVICE TO GREEK SHIP At 1.15 a.m. on 24th August, 1965, a report was received that there was a sick man on board the Greek S.S.
Aegaion of Piraeus. The life-boat City of Bradford HI was launched at 1.32 in a light westerly...
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 130 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 131 TRIBUTE TO LIFE-BOAT DESIGNER 133 THE WRECK OF THE ANZIO I 134 CREW THROWN OUT OF IRB 136 AWARD FOR SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY 138 SIDELIGHTS ON STATIONS AND PLACES 139 THIRTY-FIFTH CIVIL SERVICE...
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Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...
Life-Boat Gifts for Christmas
WE would remind readers of The Life- boat that, as announced in the September journal, the Institution is issuing a Calendar for 1930. This calendar re- produces in colours a picture, " All Saved," which was specially painted for...
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A Kayak
On Sunday 11 June 2006, a man launched his flat-topped kayak at Perranporth in Cornwall in anticipation of an afternoon's fun. Soon however he was overwhelmed by 2m surf. It washed him, out of control, round into a rocky cove and threw...
A Hundred Years Ago
CHANGE OF TITLE OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK MOST of our readers are already aware that the title of the above Society has been recently altered to that of the "Royal...
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Ocean Star
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...
The Cruisada
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the evening of the 7th of April a small vessel was observed in the Wallet Channel, S.E. of Clacton Pier, during a strong S.W. wind and a very rough sea. With the aid of a powerful glass, it was seen that she wasdisabled,...
Green Olive
On the 24th February, it having been reported that a vessel was ashore, the Life-boat put off at 8.30 A.M., and proceeded under sails and oars to the Long Sand, on the N.E. part of which the brig Green Olive, of Littlehampton, coalladen from...
An Aeroplane
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of April, 1948, the Royal Naval Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed about one and a half miles south-east of the...