LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zair, of Maldon
AUGUST 28TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties east of Clacton pier, and that the Clacton life-boat was unable to launch, owing to the lowness of the tide. He asked...
Dorothy
A dismasted yacht being seen off the North Foreland while a moderate gale was blowing, accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 5th June, the Life-boat Frances Forbet Barton was launched at 5 P.M., and on reaching the vessel found she was the yawl...
Terukuni Maru
NOV. 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 12.5 2 P.M. the Japanese steamer Terukuni Maru, of Tokio, bound for London, was sunk by enemy action about one and a half miles E. of the north-east Gunfleet Buoy. A light easterly breeze was...
A Sailboard and a Speed Boat
Offshore wind keeps inflatable busy Southend-on-Sea South East Division Strong offshore winds kept Southend-on- Sea's D class inflatable busy on 4 April 1988 when it was called out twice in the late afternoon for windsurfers and a...
Fraserburgh
A DEPLORABLE accident, which resulted in the loss of two lives, occurred at Fraserburgh, on the 28th April. The Admiralty drifter Eminent, which left Buryhead the previous night, bound for Fraserburgh to be " demobilised," had an...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
Category: Articles
Active
While the wind was blowing hard from the S.W. and a heavy sea was running, a ship was re- ported to be in distress about five miles from this place, on the 19 th September. The Jane life-boat was immediately launched and proceeded to the...
Vale of Conway
During a gale of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in a disabled state at some distance from the land, off the south end of the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat Charley Peek "was...
Presentation at Westminster Hospital
IN April, 1926, the Institution awarded its Gold Brooch to Miss H. Denham, who for many years has been in the Incurable Ward at Westminster Hospital; and during the past seven years has collected there for the Life-boat Service nearly...
Category: Awards
Spitfire
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...