LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Convoy's Papers Saved
The Southend-on-Sea life-boat has rescued , from a tug, which had gone ashore in a dense fog, the commodore of a convoy - and all the convoy's papers..
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Amsterdam, of Sunderland
On the 8th March, a large ship, in attempting to make the River Tees, struck heavily on the Bar, and immediately showed signals of distress.
Soon afterwards she drifted on to the North Gare Sandbank. The wind was blowing...
Sea Mist
JANUARY 1ST. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. On New Year’s Eve, at about 9.30 P.M., the coastguard notified the life-boat authorities that a boat was ashore on Christchurch Bar, but not in immediate danger. A moderate E. wind was blowing...
Loddon
JANUARY 26TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.5 A.M.
the coast watching station at Greenore Point reported a vessel in distress two and a half miles N.E. of Greenore. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a...
Casamance (3)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Introduction
IF there be one subject more than another that might be expected to command the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great Britain, it surely must be the safety and welfare of those of her sons " whose business...
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LIFESAVING MODELS
RNLI volunteer David Gillingwater is the artist behind Oilskins: A Portrait of the Aldeburgh Lifeboat Crew. At the time of writing Lifeboat, the exhibition was just getting under way in the Suffolk town’s Garage...
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Admiral Van Tromp
Fishing vessel aground A DISTRESS CALL asking for lifeboat assistance from the fishing vessel Admiral Van Tromp was passed to the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station by Whitby Coastguard at 0302 on Thursday, September 30, 1976; the...
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
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McNear, of Boston
On the night of the 10th June, signals from the Newarp, Cockle, and St.
Nicholas Lightships indicating a vessel in distress were observed from Caister.
The surf Life-boat Godsend was launched, and...