LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Empire Tigaven and The S.S. Cormoat
DECEMBER 13TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND FILEY, YORKSHIRE. During a northwesterly gale, with a very rough sea, the S.S.
Empire Tigaven and the S.S. Cormoat came into collision about four miles off Flamborough.
A...
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will have a reproduction on it in colours of the picture above. It is an old painting, recently presented to the Institution, of Grace...
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New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
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A Rowing Boat, a Dinghy and the Converted Trawler Alessie
HELICOPTER HELPED At 8.30 a.m. on 3151 August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men in a rowing boat about three miles offshore from his look-out were waving frantically to attract attention.
There...
The Invasion Barge L.C. 1237
DECEMBER 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 1.15 in the afternoon a number of small invasion barges put into Margate Harbour.
A fresh easterly wind was blowing with a choppy sea. The officer-in-charge reported that...
Fishing Cobles
MAY 16TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 8.30 in the morning five small fishing cobles were expected to return. The tide was ebbing and there was a rough sea on the bar, making it very dangerous to cross. At 9.15 the No. 2...
Rescue By Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
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Jenny
FMBTWOOD, LANCASHIRE. — At 5.45 A.M.
on the 10th August, it was reported that a vessel had dragged her anchor and was in distress about 2 miles N.E. of the Wyre Light. The wind was blowing a strong gale from the N.W., and a...
The S.S. Glengoil
MARGATE.—Signals having been shown by the lightships, and by a vessel ashore on the Girdler Sand during a strong S.W.
wind and a moderate sea on the 3rd November, the Quiver, No. 1, Life-boat was launched at about 7.30 P.M....
Emily Warbrick
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 12th February the coxswain of the Life-boat observed signals of distress displayed by a schooner at anchor in Moelf re Roads. He mustered his crew, and without delay launched the Star...