LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capitaine Bonelli
The French steamer Capitaine Bonelli, reported to the Ramsgate Coastguard at about 9.10 P.M., on 23rd February, that an explosion had been heard five miles E. of the South Goodwin Lightvessel. This in- formation was passed to the Life-boat...
Tiller Master (David Jolly)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft up to 50ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged, i amp. average...
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NOV. 23RD. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A red glare or flares had been seen low in the sky and it had been thought that a vessel was on fire but the life-boat could find no vessel needing her help, and trawlers to whom she spoke...
An Aeroplane (121)
AUGUST 15TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. An aeroplane had come down in the sea on fire, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £19 4s. 6d..
The S.S Lilian
About 110011 on the 6th July the Coastguard fired the Life-boat assembly signal, and in response the crew quickly mustered, launched the boat, and at once pro- ceeded to the s.s. Lilian, of West Hartlepool, which was ashore in a very...
Sampan
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. On the evening of the 8th of March, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat, which had left Newhaven for Shoreham Harbour at noon, had not arrived. At 10.30 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and...
S.S. Laird’s Castle, Iago and Mr. Linthorst Homan
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 6.55 A.M. the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the S.S.. Laird’s Castle, of Glasgow, had been in collision. Her position was given as about one mile west of Sanda Island. A moderate S....
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Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 5.20 on the evening of the 21st of Octo- ber, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to ask if the life-boat would take seven men off a drilling tower which had been «rected off Hinkley Point in Bridg-...
John M.
Cromer, and Sberingham, Norfolk.— On the morning of the 7th August, 1938, the motor vessel John M., of London, ran ashore off Beeston Hill between Cromer and Sheringham, while bound from Blyth to Teignmouthladen with coal and carrying a crew...
Sanantonias
DOCTOR TO TRAWLER Padstow, Cornwall. At 12.35 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the honorary secretary was asked by Ilfracombe radio station to take a doctor out to the Belgian trawler Sanantonias to attend to two injured men.
At...