LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vandro
AUXILIARY KETCH TOWED TO HARBOUR Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 10.20 on the evening of the 27th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the master of the Galloper lightvessel had reported that a large auxiliary ketch...
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Poop deck ftxky, a nine-year-old Labrador cross, was swept out to sea after racing into ftesea ro chase seagulls at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland. Haifa mfe from shore. Rocky soon tired of doing doggy-paddle and was relieved to...
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Salcombe, Devon.—At 10.0 on the night of the 6th August, 1952, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen one mile south-south-east of Bolt Head. At 10.10 the life-boat Samuel and Marie Parkhouse left her moorings,...
Intrepid
MARGATE.—Signals were shown by a vessel in Margate Roads, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, with rain, on the 3rd August. The Lifeboat Civil Service, No. 1, was launched at 11.40 P.M...
Semnos II
Aberdeen - At 2.9 a.m. on i6th December, 1966, a red flare was sighted north of the river Ythan, and later it was confirmed that the motor fishing vessel Semnos II was aground north of the river estuary. The coastguard L.S.A. company were...
Past and Present
From THE LIFEBOAT of March 1963 The disaster at Seaham Harbour in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
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Category: Articles
Lady Molly
GUIDED TO BOAT BY PARAFFIN FLARES Hastings, Sussex. At 8.35 on the evening of the 6th October, 1962, two members of the local angling club reported that the motor boat Mahaba was overdue. There was a light northeast breeze with a smooth sea....
Monte Gurugu
Appledore, Clovelly, and Df racombe, Devon.
—On the 13th of November, 1949, all three life-boats went to the help of the Spanish steamer Monte Gurugu, which was foundering at the entrance to the Bristol Channel, and rescued...
St Bridget
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th May the fishing-boat St. Bridget, of Ballinagoul, whilst returning from Dungarvan, ran on to the rocks near Ballinacourty Light- house, in a squall of rain. As the four men on board were in danger, the Life- boat...
Afternoon
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Presentation of awards . . . 1964 at the Central Hall, Westminster: presentations were made by HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, then president of the Institution.
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Category: Photographs