LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Moorlands
Montrose, Angus.—At 10.10 on the night of the 25th of December, 1952, the Usan coastguard telephoned that a vessel five miles east-south-east of Montrose had wirelessed a distress signal, and at 10.35 the life-boat The Good Hope was launched...
Edwin
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—On the moming of the 2nd February it was reported by the Coastguard that lights had been seen on the Barnham Flats and that a vessel was in a dangerous position off Thornham.
A strong wind was blowing...
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
Waree, of Dundalk
LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...
Helen, of Stornoway
'On the 31st August the sloop Helen, of Stornoway, bound from Cullen to the Moray Firth, was obliged to come to an anchor, during a gale at N.W., in the bay to the east of the small fishing harbour of Lossiemouth.
In...
La Voyageuse
Torbay, Devon - At 3.33 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a motor cruiser had gone aground on the rocks south of Mansands. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings at 6.45 to...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 3.45 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the honorary secretary was told by the occupier of a house overlooking the Naze, Harwich and Harford water approaches that a man and a woman were marooned by the rising tide in the...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided o-rei by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of the...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Conferences
South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
Category: Meetings