LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diesel Engines
SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...
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Endeavour
Dunbar, East Lothian.-—At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 19th of October, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from the steam trawler Princess Mary, received through Stonehaven Radio, that she had a Dunbar fishing boat in tow....
A Wellington Bombing Aeroplane (1)
JULY 26TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.42 in the morning the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about a mile north of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at 3 A.M.. A moderate...
An Appeal
A leading object of this publication being to draw attention to the deplorable loss of life from shipwreck which periodically takes place on our shores, we propose, in our pre- sent Number, to take a brief general review* of the subject, for...
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Yacht We're Here
The cutter-yacht We're Here, of Burnham-ou-Crouch, was in grave peril of being lost on the Castle Rocks, Hastings, in the early morning of the 19th August. The yacht, with the owner, his wife, man, and two dogs on board, left Folkestone...
A Launch
Newhaven, Sussex - At 3.26 p.m.
on 26th June, 1966, a small launch was seen in difficulties two miles off the Martello tower at Seaford. There was a strong south westerly wind with a moderate sea. It was two hours before...
Milborne
Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 4.45 on the morning of the 20th of March, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that awireless distress message had been intercepted from the motor vessel Milborne, of Poole, stating that she had gone ashore eight miles...
Robbie
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 11.15 p.m.
on 4th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen in the Straits off Beaumaris. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at...
Handy, of Wexford
On the 8th May the schooner Handy, of Wexford, was stranded in the South Bay during a strong N.E. gale and in a very heavy sea. The Civil Service life-boat went off and rescued 4 men of the vessel's crew. Owing to the violence of the sea...
High, but not dry
5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...
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