LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from Coaster After Nine Hour-Passage
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Cromarty life-boat station, Mr. James Cameron, learnt from the coastguard that the coaster Servus of Leith needed help nine and a half miles south-by-east...
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Eloise
Margate, Kent. At 6.56 on the evening of the 17th of May, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties on Margate Sands. At 7.4 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched on...
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William Naizby
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the 25th January, the Life-boat Leicester went off to the barque William Naizby, of London, which vessel had parted both her chains in a heavy squall, and had afterwards come into collision with the steamer Romeo, of...
Montrose
The Charles Dibdin Life-boat was launched during an exceptionally heavy W.S.W. gale, on the 28th December, in answer to signals of distress from the South Goodwin Light- vessel, considerable difficulty being experienced, owing to the...
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 1.20 p.m. on 8th June, 1966, an R/T message was received from the m.f.v. Provider stating she had sprung a serious leak about seven miles north east of Whitby. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth launched at 1.25 in a...
Estelle and Finola
Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later...
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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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Wiema
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 10th Decem- ber, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Wiema of Groningen had developed a heavy list through her cargo...
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