LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cash Haul
A final spurt in helping The Lord Kitchener public house in Welling, Kent, to raise £12,000 for a D class inflatable lifeboat was aided by staff of Securicor Custodial Services, Charlton, who hauled a nine and a half ton prison van over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Small Motor Fishing Boat Scot
FEBRUARY 17TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The small motor fishing boat Scot, with a crew of four, left Stornoway to fish in the morning, and anxiety was felt when darkness came on and she had not returned. A southerly gale was...
Other Celebrations In Greater London
Ashford held a Concert.
Barnes held a series of Dances, which were a great success. East Sheen held a Dance, and a Dance was organized at Erith by the local sea scouts.
Greenwich held a Whist Drive and...
Category: Articles
Attila
Again on the 19th January, at 10.15 P.M., during a moderate gale from the N.E., the Life-boat Bradford and harbour steamtug Aid proceeded to the assistance of the ship Attila, of Newcastle, which had lost her fore and main masts, and was...
Hans Thiis
RAMSGATE,—A message was received telephone from the Goodwin Light-vessel on the morning of the 24th July, stating that a vessel was ashore on the North Goodwin Sands. At 10 o'clock the Lifeboat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug John...
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Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 24th of July, 1953, the Penmon coastguard rang up to say that two people were stranded on Puffin Island and were waving for help.
As the weather was too bad for a...
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NOVEMBER 29TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
About ten in the morning a doctor telephoned that he had heard from Stroma Island that a woman on the island had broken a leg. There was no doctor or nurse on the island, and the heavy...
The Screw Steamer Barington
MAHTPOBT, CTOBEBUHB,—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 26th September a smaE screw steamer, the Sarington, of Maryport, was observed to be making for the port. The wiad was blowing a strong gale from the W. by S.W., accompanied by a very rough sea,...
Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1951, the coxswain reported that the local hshing coble Hilda II was off Red Cliff and making for Scarborough in bad weather. It would have been dangerous for her to enter...
A Motor Trawler
On the 26th of November, 1954, the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat put out in a whole north-westerly gale to go to the help of a motor trawler. The next day, with the help of a fishing boat, the life-boat succeeded in towing the trawler from...