LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blyth: CHOIR HITS TOP NOTE FOR KIT
Sing United entertained a sell-out audience at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle, in their first show together as a choir – raising a remarkable £1,339 to help save lives at sea. Pupils from Stocksfield Avenue Primary School and Stormy...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer James E. Haviland
DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT.
The naval officer-in-charge, Ramsgate, asked that a doctor should be taken to the American steamer James E. Haviland. A strong southwest wind was blowing and the sea was very rough. The motor...
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On the 19th of August, 1952, the bowman of the Bridlington life-boat lost his life when the life-boat went to the help of two girls who had got into difficulties while bathing. Awards: the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to...
Sea Eagle
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 9.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1954, the police at Great Yarmouth telephoned that the motor cruiser Sea Eagle, of Norwich, with three young men on board, had run ashore in Breydon Water and...
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
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The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (1)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
The S.S. Vikvall
The s.s. Vikvall, of Oskaishamn, Sweden, stranded on the Haisborough Sands, about'one mile S.E. of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy, on 24th December, while bound, in ballast, to Hartlepool. The weather was misty, and a strong westerly...
The S.S. Cape Clear
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 6.26 on the morning of the 7th of March, 1954, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Middle Shoebury Sands, but there were no distress signals. The weather deteriorated during the morn- ing, and at 10.12...
A Minesweeper (1)
JULY 21ST. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 9.45 P.M. the harbour master reported that a minesweeper was aground east of Gut Gas Buoy. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea.
Another message said that the...
The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 24th of October, 1947. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, presided, supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Westminster, Lady Nathan, Chairman...
Category: Meetings