LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thetis
During hazy weather on the 14th Sep- tember information was received that a vessel was ashore on the South Steel.
The Life-boat Arthur B. Dawes was launched without loss of time, and, on reaching the position indicated,...
Granada
At 8.25 on the morning of the 2nd January, a message was received from the Formby Light-vessel, stating that a steamer ap- peared to be aground on Taylor's Bank, and later the information was confirmed.
The Life-boat...
Life-Boat Exhibition
THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...
Category: Articles
Capricornus
The Humber, Yorkshire.—At 7.45 A.M.
on the 7th August, 1938, it was reported from Easington, through the Humber Signal Station, that a vessel was ashore at Dimlington Heights.
A moderate northerly breeze...
Archglen and Empire Fabric
Dover, Kent.—At 6.40 in the morning of the 26th of October, 1949, the Eastern Arm signal station telephoned that a vessel was dragging her anchors at East Cliff, and at 7 o'clock the life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings. A whole...
Runa (1)
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...
None (3)
Aberdeen.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 6th of November, 1951, the city police telephoned for help in rescuing people who were trapped by flood water at a caravan camp on the banks of the River Dee at Milltimber. A south-easterly gale was...
Flag Jack
Early on the morning of the 14th September the coxswain received a telephone message from the coastguard that a vessel was in distress east of the look-out. A strong northerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and it was...
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
Eva May
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—On the morning of the 12th of June, 1956, the coast- guard reported that the local long- shore boat Eva May, with one man on.
board, had left harbour at nine o'clock the morning before, but had not...