LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (1)
Shortly after ; noon on the 3rd August, while a diver was giving a performance fit thy pier- head, the attendant boat was capsized, | throwing her two occupants into the water. There was a moderate N.W.
gale...
Alcester
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the 19th February, in a temporary break of an intensely thick fog, the coxswain of the Life-boat saw a large ship strike on Atherfleld ledge. He at once called the crew together and at about 7 P.M. the Life-boat...
Cancer
On the 13th January during a very dense fog, signals of distress were heard from a steamer.
As it was thought that she was ashore on the "Inner Binks," the Life-boat was launched and proceeded along the edge of...
London District Conference
A CONFERENCE of the branches in the London District was held at Southend- on-Sea on the 30th of March. Eighty- one delegates from forty-five branches attended it. The party was welcomed by the Mayor, visited the life-boat house, saw the life...
Category: Meetings
Confide
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.50 P.M.
on the 23rd March, 1938, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Viera Skerry, south of Rousay, in a bad position, and was leaking. A strong S.W. breeze was...
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Diana III
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.15 in the evening, on the 8th of April, 1950, the Walton coastguard telephoned a message from the Felixstowe coast- guard, that a yacht near the Black Stakes, north-west of the Naze, seemed to be in...
Dedication
A remarkable demonstration of service has come to the notice of the R.N.L.I, at Douglas, Isle of Man. The devoted helper, who was physically handicapped, was 15-year old David Kelly who died in November.
It is understood...
Category: Articles
None (7)
Aith, Shetlands. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 23rd of December, 1958, a doctor told the honorary secretary that a woman on the Island of Foula had fallen and broken her hip and needed hospital treatment im- mediately. As the weather was...