LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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REMEMBERING PRINCESS VICTORIA
31 January 1953. A storm is building that will cause one of the UK’s worst natural disasters. Despite the gale warnings, at 7.45am the British Railways ferry Princess Victoria begins her regular passage across the Irish Sea. She will never...
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Hawksdale
MARGATE AND CLACTON-ON-SEA.—On the morning of the 26th January, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.E.
accompanied by a heavy sea, the Margate boatmen observed a large vessel apparently in dangerously close proximity...
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
C&vJte Ckapt MARINE A U X I LI AR IES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat Many other winches of similar design...
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Sea Hawkinge
Appledore, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 31st August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Sea Hawk was aground off Down End and that one of the crew had been taken off by a lifeguard in a rubber boat. The...
GIVE IT A GO: FAMILY TREE
King, smuggler, lifeboat hero – what do you know about your ancestors?
We’ve enlisted genealogist Laura Berry to give you seven easy ways to discover your family history
Imagine you’re a detective, with clues...
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Confidence
The schooner Confidence, of Aberystwith, struck on the Dulas Rocks, about five miles from this place, during a heavy gale from the S.W., at one o'clock on the morning of the 14th Nov.,. 1871, and, on the tide receding, she was for...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 29th of January, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a sick woman on the island was in need of medical treat- ment. As there was no doctor on the island and it was...
St. Pierre Eglise
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 10.-12 on the night of the 24th of March, 1953, the Ramsey coastguard rang up to say that a vessel south of Douglas Head was blowing short blasts on its siren, and at eleven o'clock the Douglas Head Lighthouse...
Two Fighter Aeroplanes
DECEMBER 19TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Two fighter aeroplanes had crashed in the sea, but though wreckage was picked up by a motor launch, and oil patches were seen, no survivors could be found. - Rewards, £12 15s..<...