LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Exchequer
A TRAWLER ASHORE Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1947, a vessel was reported ashore at Lackie Head, near Kinnaird Head, and the motor life-boat John and Charles Kennedy was launched two minutes...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Mirliton
On the 31st October flares were seen in the direction of the Holme Sand during a fresh S.E. by S. breeze, and a moderate sea, and the Gorton lightship also firedguns and rockets. The Life-boat proceeded out at 3.25 A.M. in tow of a steamtug,...
Life-Boat Broadcasts During the War
FOUR appeals were made for the Lifeboat Service during the war in "The Week's Good Cause," in the Home Service of the B.B.C. They were made by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Lord Winster, a member of the...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year 1890-91
THE Wreck Register not having been issued as early as usual by the Board of Trade, we are unable to furnish our readers, in the November number of our Journal, as has been our wont, with a Chart showing the wrecks and shipping casualties...
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Benari
Margate, Kent. At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 24th July, 1961, the coast- guard told the coxswain that a yacht had grounded on the Hook sands and that her crew of four were trying to refloat her. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Lectures to Training Ships
DURING the winter Captain G. C.
Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Manage- ment, has visited the principal Sea Training Ships for boys and given lectures, illustrated with films or slides, on the...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscription*.
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HEB MOST GRACIOUS Majesty THE...
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24th January Distress signals reported but no vessel in distress could be found.—Rewards, £16 Is..
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6th Septem- ber. Signals had been reported, but no vessel in distress could be found.— Rewards, £13 4s. 6d..