LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Echo, of London
Another excellent service was performed by this valuable life-boat on the 17th December. Soon after midnight a vessel was reported on shore at Eccles, about a mile and a half from Palling. It was blowing a heavy gale of wind from the N.W. at...
Helping Pilots In Trouble
THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.
During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...
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Four Brothers
ENGINE DISORDER Cromer, Norfolk. At 12.30 a.m. on 23rd December, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Haisbro' lightvessel had sighted red flares about two and a half miles to the southwest.
There...
A Ship’s Boat (3)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the night of 18th September the sound of bombs and heavy gunfire had been heard out at sea, and on the morning of the 20th a message came from the coast watchers at Hook Pointthat...
Luda Lady
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 1.40 A.M. on the 20th January the coastguard reported that a steamer appeared to be ashore three miles N.E.
of Britannia Pier. A gentle...
An Aeroplane (7)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on- Sea, Essex.—9th September, 1939.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown...
Aquilla
TOWED TO GRIMSBY At 3.41 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties in the moderate seas off the coastguard station.
At 4.34 he...
The Greek Cargo Ship Protoklitos (1)
West Mersea and Clacton-on-Sea: The Greek cargo ship Protoklitos was at anchor in the Blackwater Estuary when, on Monday February 7, fire broke out in her engine room and spread to her accommodation. It was a very cold day with a strong...
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Buckle, Banffshire. At 2.30 a.m. on 9th December, 1965, the life-boat Laura Moncur left her moorings in a moderate to strong south-westerly breeze and a moderate sea to relieve the Cromarty lifeboat which had been searching for fourteen...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convoy an idea of the general character of one of the 293 Life-boat Stations...
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