LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Articles
Ingrid II and Thelas
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. — About 3.45 on the afternoon of the 26th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was flying a distress signal near Holland Point. At 4.15 the life- boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
The Ocean Wave
GREAT YARMOUTH.—A schooner, whichproved to be the Ocean Wave, of Fowey, coal laden, from Shields for Plymouth, was seen stranded on the Scroby Sand in thick weather on the 5th May. At 6.50 p.m. the Life-boat John Surch proceeded to her...
The S.S. Foreland
Great Yarmouth and Corleston, Norfolk.
At 9.40 in the morning of the 20th of May, 1948, the S.S. Foreland., of Blyth, anchored off Great Yarmouth and sig- nalled for a doctor. At 9.57 the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
The S.S. Drumhendry
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The s.s. Drumhendry, of Glasgow, bound from Ballydonegan Bay, Co. Cork, to Hayle, with dynamite and other explosives, in attempting to come into Hayle at about 2 P.M.
on the 29th April, was driven on the...
Under the Shelter
The remote control, or extension, beside the mechanic's head as he sits at his controls. The cable for his transmitting microphone can be seen. The microphone itself is tucked into a box beside him. On the extension itself arc the... - View image in PDF
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Golden Island
HOLYHEAD.—During a heavy gale from the W., at 9 A.M. on the 14th October, signals of distress were reported to have been shown by two or three vessels anchored in dangerous positions in the bay. The Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched, but...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...
Coxswain Henry G. Blogg
BY winning a third-service clasp to his silver medal for the rescue of the crew of the Mount Ida, Coxswain Henry G. Blogg, of Cromer, takes the first place in the Institution's records for gallantry. He has now won its gold medal twice...
Category: Medals