LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (7)
Wicklow - At 11.25 P-m- on 25tn August, 1966, the coxswain was told that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht.
The life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings at 11.50 in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was...
Exeter Hospital Aid Society
RETIRED DOCTOR COMMENTS ON PRIVATE HEALTH : After retiring many people find that private health insurance discounts are no longer available to them.
Worse still, there is an enormous age-related loading in subscription...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Middlesbro’ and the S.S. Phaeasian
DEC. 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At 8.15 P.M. a message was received that distress signals had been seen E.N.E. of the life-boat station. A strong S. wind was blowing, and there was a moderate ground swell. At 9 P.M. the...
A Motor Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS IN ALL-NIGHT SEARCH Torbay, and Exmouth, Devon. At 10.44 on the night of the 16th August, 1962, the Brixham coastguard passed on a report from a boat-owner, whose son had put out in a 20-foot motor boat three hours earlier to...
International Life-Boat Conference
THE eighth International Life-boat Conference took place in Bremen from the 23rd to the 25th of June, 1959. The hosts were the German life-boat society, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger.
Delegates from...
Category: Meetings
Walker Hall, of Sunderland
THURSO, N.B.—Eleven lives were saved by the Life-boat Charley Lloyd, on the afternoon of the 7th March. On that day a heavy gale was blowing from W.N.W., when the barque Walker Hall, of Sunderland, having dragged her anchors from Scrabster...
Agnes Louisa
THOBPEHESS, SUFFOLK.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 26th November, .the Life^boat Ipswich was launched in response to signals in the direction of Sizewell Bank, during a S.S.E. wind and a heavy sea.
On reaching the vessel, which...
Henny
At 2.35 P.M.
on the 3rd March, a vessel was observed by the Coxswain standing into danger near the Scroby Sands. He therefore assembled his crew and launched the Life-boat John Burch and proceeded to her. She proved to be...
Primrose
Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.15 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the local fishing boat Primrose, which had a crew of four, had not returned and had last been seen by fishermen near Mav...
The Belgian Naval Ship Konig Albert
MOTOR CRUISER FIRES DISTRESS SIGNALS Dover, Kent. At one o'clock on the morning of Monday the 15th of July, 1963, the Folkestone coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had been seen firing red flares half a mile south of...