LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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First there was the competition announced in the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT, the prize for which was a BMW Series 7 motor car generously...

FOR a search carried out in a northwesterly wind of storm force, when a wind speed of over 107 miles per hour was recorded, letters of commendation have been sent to the members of the crew of the St. Helier life-boat and of a Jersey pilot...

The Institution has also lost a very generous friend by the death of M.

Andre1 Citroen, founder and head of the great French motor-manufacturing firm which bears his name. M. Citroen will be remembered not only for his work...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—When the life- boat reached harbour at 8.15 on the morning of the 7th of May, 1949, with the fishing-boat Prosperity and the yacht Red Rover, she was told by the coastguard that three other local fishing boats were...

WHITEHAVEN, CUMBBBLAND.—At midnight on the 9th of May, the Norwegian barque Thorsbjerg, laden with deals from Laurvig for Whitehaven, which was lying at anchor off the port, waiting until the tide would allow her to enter, parted both her...

Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.15 on the morning of the 20th of May, 1958, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was aground on Broadstairs Knoll, with another trawler standing by. The Dover life-boat Southern Africa,...

JUNE 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Margate coastguard that a vessel had been mined at the N.E. Spit Buoy. It was calm and the sea smooth. At 12.30 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough (Civil...

The fishing smack Wellesley, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at dead low-water, during a gale of wind from the S.E. and a heavy sea, at 7.30 P.M., on the 19th March, took the ground outside the pier and drove on to the beach.<...