LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Amos
Aberdeen.—At 7.41 on the evening of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that there was a very sick man on board the coaster Amos, of Copenhagen. Her position was then 75 miles south-east of Aberdeen. The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BANFF, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Banff, .on the north-east coast of Scotland, in connec- tion with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT' INSTITUTION.
A self-righting boat on' the...
Category: Articles
A Vessel
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
Dainty
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties in Saundersfoot Bay. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at low...
Ferret
JANUARY 15TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. During the afternoon the Naval Control informed the life-boat coxswain that a barge was burning flares close to the Grain Spit,. Half a gale was blowing from the N.E., with a rough sea. The motor...
Walborg and H.M. Trawler Melbourne
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
A Boat
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of September, 1950, two men from a Shipbreaking Company were inspecting a wreck in Campbeltowii Loch. While they were aboard, a sudden gale sprang up from the south, with torrential...
Humbergate
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.58 on the morning of the 22nd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the coaster Humber- gate was aground half a mile south of Easington. The life-boat City of Brad- ford HI was...
Naming Ceremony and Centenary
Anstruther combined the naming ceremony for their new life-boat The Doctors with their centenary celebrations. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester named the boat after a service of dedication on 28th July, 1965.
The...
Category: Inaugurations
Regency
Caister, Norfolk - At 4.45 p.m. on 23rd June, 1966, the station mechanic noticed a vessel dragging her anchors in Yarmouth Roads. She was put under observation and at 5.40 she hoisted a distress signal. The life-boat The Royal Thames was...