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The S.S. Karuma
The S.S. Karuma, of Hamburg, ran on to the rocks about half a mile north of New- biggin Point, during a very thick fog, on 13th October, whilst bound from Hamburg to the Tyne. The Life-boat Ada Lewis was immediately launched and proceeded to...
Army's Gratitude for Dunkirk.
The appeal to, the Army, which the Institution makes each year was sent out in August, 1940. The response up to the end of February 1941, is £5562.
That is fourteen times as much as in 1939. The Army is much larger,...
Category: Articles
Stuck In the Sands
One morning last May an army ambulance stuck in the sands at New Brighton, Cheshire, and two other vehicles which went to drag it out also stuck.
The tide was coming in, with" a nasty swell, and the need was so urgent...
Category: Articles
The Norwegian Galliot Johanna, of Soon
On the 8th March a vessel was observed running in for the land, and, as it was evident she was em- bayed, there being a heavy sea and strong wind from E.N.E., a steam-tug went out and took her in tow. While crossing the bar the tow-rope...
The Life-Boat Service In 1948. A Comparison With Ten and Twenty Years Ago
IN 1948 the life-boats of the Institution were called out 603 times to vessels in distress.
Ten years ago the number was 485.
That was then a record year for time of peace. In each of the three years since...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats
NAIRN, NAIRNSHIRE.—There was a strong W.S.W. gale and a rough sea on the 6th February. While several of the fishing-boats were out, news came that one of them had been lost and her crew of two hands drowned. Very shortly after this two of...
Tripper
During a fresh S.W. breeze on the 14th May it was reported that a vessel was on the S.W.
part of the Guufleet Sands, the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow therefore pro- ceeded to her assistance. On reaching the sands they...
Spurn Head (From page 95)
a wooden half-lifeboat plaque made from the wreckage of the Peterhead lifeboat Alexander Tulloch which was wrecked in 1914 (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer, 1973), is a well-known maker of matchstick models. For example, using 1,500 used matchsticks,...
Category: Articles
Front Cover
Front Cover Exactly twenty years on - the same photo, but with different boats and different crews - see the News pages in this issue for the full story.
by Colin Watson Any products or services advertised in The Lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs