LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Joint Helicopter-Life-Boat Exercise
ON the 1st of September, 1955, the Humber life-boat City of Bradford III carried out an exercise in conjunction with a helicopter of the Royal Air Force station at North Cotes.
In the morning the pilot of the air- craft...
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Duke of Normandy
St. Helier, Jersey-At io.2ia.m. on 8th March, 1966, the duty harbour officer received a Mayday message via Jersey radio from the tug Duke of Normandy saying that she had struck a rock near Les Vascelius on the Les Minquiers reef. The...
Training for Disaster
ILINER EXPLODES IN WORKINGTON HARBOUR - MANY FEARED DEAD, 100 INJURED 'Sirens blasted across Workington as black clouds of smoke rose above the town. Roads were blocked as ambulances and fire engines hurtled towards the docks, blue...
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Soudan
CAISTER, NORFOLK, and GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.— On the afternoon of the 7th November, during hazy weather, signal guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Lightship off the coast of Norfolk, in response to which the Gorleston Life-boat Mark Lane was...
Cragoswald
The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...
Nimble Wisbee
TRIMARAN SAVED Dover, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on loth April, 1965, a resident at Folkestone informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Folkestone. The life-boat Southern Africa proceeded at 4.55 in a strong...
Fishing Cobles
At 6 A.M. on the 4th April nine of the cobles belonging to Filey went off fishing, in a moderate N.E. breeze. Later the sea increased very much, and at 9 A.M. one coble returned and reported the sea outside was very rough for the cobles....
Features
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
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Atlantic
At 10 P.M. on the 27th October, in reply to signals of distress, the Life-boat Dr. Batton was launched from this station, and proceeded through a heavy sea and fresh breeze at S.E. to the assistance of the barque Atlantic, of Grimstad, which...
Mary Jane
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 23rd of January, 1955, a man reported that he had seen red Very lights off the entrance to the harbour. At 7.50 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out. The sea was calm, there...