LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
J. M. J.
APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—Signals of distress having been observed, the Lifeboat Jane Hannah MacDonald was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 20th January in a moderate S.W. wind, a heavy sea, and thick weather. The schooner J. M. J., of Bideford,...
Pilot Me
At 2.30 A.M.
on the 8th April the motor fishing boat Pilot Me put to sea to haul crab-pots off Marske, the sea then being rough.
As the wind and sea were increasing the Coxswain telephoned to Redcar at 7...
Panda
Margate, Kent. At 10.50 on the night of the 27th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Margate sands.
At eleven o'clock the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was...
Annual Awards 1974
The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...
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Sea Sweeper (1)
Appledore and Dfracombe, North Devon - At 8.35 p.m. on 17th July, 1969, the Hartland coastguard told the Appledore life-boat coxswain that the cabin cruiser Sea Sweeper, with two people on board, was in difficulties one mile west of Baggy...
Gwydyr Castle
On the night of the 20th March the harbour tug and the Life-boat Bradford were again called out to the assistance of the barque Gwydyr Castle, of Liverpool, which had stranded on the north end of the Goodwin Sands while bound from Port Pirie...
Henry
On the 13th of March last, the brig Henry, of Montrose, in Low- estoft Roads, parted her cables in a strong E.S.E. gale, and was driven on shore under Pakefield lighthouse. The Pakefield life- boat was speedily launched, and succeeded in...
150 Years Old
Ix 1950 the Committee of Management of the Institution resolved that life- boat stations which had been pre- sented with a vellum to commemorate the completion of a hundred years would be presented with another to mark the completion of a...
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Vellum for Trinity House Pilot
A Trinity House pilot at Alderney, Mr. Nicholas James Allen, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution incsribed on vellum for the rescue of 20 members of the crew of a Greek tanker.
At 11.30 on the morning of 23rd...
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The Problem of the Life-Belt
OF the many problems which confront the technical officers of the Institution few have caused so much careful thought and discussion as the design of an efficient life-belt.
Until the year 1904 the question was
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