LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BROADSTAIRS, KENT. — The boatmen at Broadstairs having some time since requested the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to place one of its self-righting life-boats on that station, and it being considered that such a boat might be useful, in...
Category: Articles
Volunteer
The crew of four hands of the schooner Volunteer of : Carnarvon, bound from Dunkirk to | Sligo with a cargo of slate, passed a terrible night on the Goodwin Sands on the llth-12th January. Shortly before midnight...
Tadorne
The steam trawler Tadorne, of Boulogne, was wrecked early in the morning of the 29th March, during a fog, a short distance from Howick Haven. The vessel was bound from Boulogne to the Iceland fishing grounds, and had a crew of thirty hands...
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Fleetwood, Lancashire. —During the afternoon of Whit Sunday, the 16th of May, 1948, a yacht could he seen on Black Scar Bank apparently in diffi- culties. She made no distress signals, but at 5.15 in the evening, the coast- guard reported...
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Newhaven, Sussex. At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had capsized off Buckmere River and that one of her crew had swum ashore and the second was in the water....
Luisa
CREW MEMBER INJURED ON BOARD YACHT Plymouth, Devon. At 9.27 on the evening of the 13th March, 1963, the honorary secretary was informed that a small white yacht with two men on board was on the breakwater 200 to 300 yards east of the fort....
Ceremonies
Littlestone - Atlantic 21 Lady Dart and Long Life II Littlestone's latest Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable, Lady Dart and Long Life II, was named and dedicated at a ceremony at the town's lifeboat station on 6 July...
Category: Inaugurations
Arrow
HOWTH.—On the 22nd November, the Clara Baker Life-boat put off to the smack Arrow, of Guernsey, which was in a sinking state in the middle of the harbour, and remained by her until she grounded and the water had left her..
Fishing Cobles (2)
RUNSWICK.—The Margaret and Edward Life-boat put off to the aid of several of the fishing-cobles belonging to this port which had been overtaken by a gale on the 2nd April. The Life-boat remained out two hours, and rendered important service...
Watford
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 10th December the Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, put off at 2 P.M., and remained by the steamer Watford, of Sunderland, laden with iron ore from Bilbao for Stockton, which had stranded on the North Barber Sand...