LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Onoway
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 7.30 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat appeared to have broken down off Flamborough Head. At 7.55 the life- boat Friendly Forester was...
End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
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Harmonious II
AUGUST 7TH. - ABERDEEN. At 10.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was burning red flares five miles away, south-east of Collieston. A light south-west wind was blowing and the sea was smooth.
The No. 1...
The S.S. Hera
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 5.33 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had stopped south-south-east of the coast- guard station and was showing the " Not under...
Ertnan
Lerwick, Shetlands. At 5.50 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ertnan, of Kristiansund, whose position was twenty-two mile seast of Bressay Light, had asked for a...
Adele
At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
Centenaries of Three Life-Boat Stations
THREE life-boat stations, those at Camp- beltown, Llandudno and Selsey, all celebrated this year the hundredth anni- versary of their foundation.
The Campbeltown station was founded in the first instance largely be- cause...
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Scarborough
At 3.55 P.M. on the 14th October the life-boat was called out to the help of the lighter Scarborough, which was employed in connexion with the building of a new life-boat slipway, and which had sprung a leak. The motor life-boat Greater...
HM Torpedo Boat Destroyers The Cherwell and Ettrick
At about 7.45 P.M. on the 20th -May two of H.M. Torpedo-boat Destroyers, the Oherwell and Ettrick, when near the Barber Sand steaming northward, ran aground. The weather was moderate, but the ships being unable to get clear fired signals for...