LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alice
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 28th October the Life-boat Joseph Anstice put off in a very heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of nine men, from the Swedish brig Alice, which was totally wrecked under Bamborough...
A Herring Coble Thankful Arthur
An E.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up on the 28th March while the small herring coble Thankful Arthur, of Filey, was at sea, and as the heavy sea showed every sign of increasing, the Life-boat Queens- bury was launched to her assistance, and...
A Small Yacht (3)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—20th September. A small yacht had capsized, but a rowing boat from Penarthrescued the crew.—Rewards, £5 3s.
[An account of the rescue by the small boat will appear in the next number of The...
Model Engineer Exhibition
THE Model Engineer Exhibition very kindly gave the Institution space for a display when it was held this year at the Horticultural Hall from August the 9th to the 19th. The Institution showed models of the first lifeboat, a pulling and...
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Dynamo
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.54 in the afternoon, on the 10th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio reported the steamer Dynamo, of Hull, aground two miles south-south-west of Ramsgate. At 4.8 the life-boat...
Ben Blanche
Mumbles, Glamorganshire, and Tenby , Pembrokeshire.—Some time after mid- night on the 18th-19th December the steamer Ben Blanche, of Ramsey, ran on the rocks to the west of Port Eynon Head. She was bqund from Dundoon, in Northern Ireland, to...
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
ME. NORMAN N. DODDS, Member of Parliament for Dartford, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on the 8th of December, 1954, "if, in view of the rescue by a United States helicopter from the South Goodwin lightship when all...
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Moby Dick
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 6.55 on the morning of the 2nd of May, 1955, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that he had received a message by radio telephone from the Barrow pilot boat. The pilot boat had found the 24-feet sailing yacht...
Stromness
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.—4th Octo- ber, 1939. In the evening the Bridge of Don coastguard reported that the steam trawler Stromness, of Aberdeen, had stranded on the beach, abreast of Broad Hill. The pulling surf life- boat Robert and Ellen...
An Attacker Aeroplane
Cromer, Norfolk.—About three o'clock in the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1952, the police reported an aeroplane in difficulties and at 3.25 the coastguard telephoned a message from the R.A.F. No. 19 Group that the aeroplane was an...