LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Orozco
At 9.50 A.M. on the 30th November a message was received from the Haisborough Lightvessel stat- ing that a steamer was ashore on the sands. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing at the time and the No. 2 Life- boat Hearts of Oak was promptly ...
A Fishing Coble
At 8.45 A.M. on the 17th January, the Coxswain of the Life-boat received information that one of the small cobles which were off line fishing was in danger of being swamped, about three quarters of a mile off Sharpness and was unable to pull...
Edith and Hilda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the afternoon of the 7th April the coastguard reported that a sailing barge some miles S.W. of Clacton appeared to be in difficulties, with her mainsail carried away. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
At Padstow on 23rd January
On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat, Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest life-boat in the Institution's fleet.
At five...
Category: Services
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Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 10.15 on the night of the 3rd of September, 1952, the coxswain received a wireless mes- sage from the local fishing boat Pro- vider A that her engine had broken down and that she would need help to enter the harbour. At...
Survivors of 1899 Disaster
THE only two living survivors ofthe Aldeburgh life-boat disaster in 1899 were guests of honour at a dinner given by Ipswich supporters of the Institution to the present crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat, and their wives, at Ipswich on the...
Category: Articles
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 13th of July, 1953, a doctor asked if the life-boat would take a seriously sick person to Lochboisdale, as the local airport was fogbound. At 11.25 the life-boat Lloyd's put to...
Linda
Hastings, Sussex. At 7.12 on the evening of the 31 st of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing boat Linda with a crew of two was having engine trouble two and a half miles south-east of Fairlight.<...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.
About 10.30 on the morning of the 28th June, 1961, the local Trinity House representative informed the life-boat motor mechanic that a man was seriously ill in the Longstone light-...
Lamonette
Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1961, the coxswain's wife told the honorary secretary that she had seen a small boat burning a red flare about three miles south-east of the life-boat station. At 3.20 the...