LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Boats
A mode- rate easterly gale was blowing on the 3rd November, and with the flood-tide the sea increased considerably. During the afternoon two fishing boats, belong- ing to St. Andrew's, which had been waiting for the tide, were observed...
Ski Queen
Hastings, Sussex.—At 9.25 P.M. on the 29th July the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with two men on board, was in distress half a mile west of Fairlight look-out. A b'ght S.E.
breeze was blowing, with a...
Veteran Collecting Box
When Mrs. V. M. Waldock, of Chislehurst, Kent, attended the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. on 9th April, 1968, she brought with her her original life-boat collecting box which she had 'some time before 1930 from a Miss Lawson who was the...
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Hanseat
GERMAN BOAT'S APPEAL Torbay, Devon. At 2 a.m. on 3rd July, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a radio message received at Niton radio station from the German coastal vessel Hanseat stated that one of the Hanseat's...
Jane Douglas
On the evening of the 12th May the weather came on thick, whilst a very heavy sea was running. Just before the fog came on the -coble Jane Douglas, of Beadnell, was observed between North Sunderland Point and Beadnell. About 7 P.M., as the...
Spenanger
OCTOBER 29TH - 30TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The laden Norwegian tanker Spenanger, of 7,248 tons, bound from Milford to the Clyde with an escort, got off her course and ran on the Carrick Rock, in Port St. Mary Bay. The weather was...
Forty Years of Motor Life-Boats
IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...
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Maybird
The motor life-boat K.E.C.F., with a tender in tow, put out at 3.35 P.M. on the 25th March, as the life-boat watch- man had seen a small vessel go ashore about half a mile S.W. of the fort. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate...
Abeja
At 1 A.M. on the 4th November it was reported that a schooner was in distress near Gribbin Head and wanted assistance. The Life-boat James William and Caroline Courtney was launched and proceeded to the position indicated, where she...
Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...