LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pandora
LIFE-BOAT FINDS YACHT'S TENDER Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.30 on the morning of the 6th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that he could see a boat drifting about three miles off Walton, but that there...
Income and Expenditure for 1927
Lite-boats:- EXPENDITURE. t s. a. £ New Life-boats for the following stations : — On account — Aberdeen, Eastbourne, Piel (Barrow), Rosslare Harbour, Southend-on-Sea, Stromness, Swanage, and Walton-on-Naze, etc 33,252 7 3 Provision of...
Category: Accounts
Westerndale H., of Hull
Life-boat 70.001 at The Mumbles - At 2.5 a.m. on i6th September, 1966, the coastguard informed Staff Coxswain J. M.
Hunter that the coastal tanker Westerndale H., of Hull, was aground on the Wash Sands. The 70-feet...
Heather
Two fishing cobles put to sea from Filey at 4 A.M. on the 15th November, but became separated in the darkness. One of them returned at 9.30 A.M. and re- ported that the other, the Heather, carrying a crew of three, had not been seen for some...
Electrical Communication With Light-Houses and Light-Vessels for Life-Saving Purposes
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
Category: Articles
Father and Son Unite
son unite Clacton lifeboat crew were sorry to say goodbye to crewman and mechanic Dave Carvey as he reached the inshore lifeboat retirement age of 45.
However, there was some comfort for them in the arrival of another of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
King Oscar
On the night of the 10th January the Norwegian barque King Oscar ran ashore on the rocks off Newbiggin Point. The Newbiggin life- boat put off, and succeeded, with some dif- ficulty, in getting on board the crew, 14 in number, and one woman,...
Pioneer, of Exeter
Early on the morning of the 22nd December, during a strong W.N.W. wind, large signal lights were seen in the direction of the West Scroby Sands. The same life-boat went out, but, after searching about for some time, could not discover any...
Alone In a Life-Boat
The Walmer life-boat was being launched down her skids in December, 1944, when a hook slipped and she ran suddenly into a rough sea with only the motor mechanic, C. P. Cavell, on board. When he felt her afloat he came on deck to find himself...
Category: Articles
To Restore Persons Apparently Drowned
Royal Humane Society's Instructions.
SEND QUICKLY FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE.
Cautims.
1. Lose no time.
3. Avoid all rough usage.
3. Never hold up...
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