LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
National Safety Week
THE National Safety Week Council, on which the Institution is represented, is arranging to hold its second Safety Week from llth May to 16th May next.
The object of the Week is to arouse the public to the need of additional...
Category: Articles
Rinovia
Stromness, Orkney.—During the night of the 9th—10th December, 1938, the Grimsby steam trawler Rinovia, homeward bound from fishing, and carrying a crew of nineteen, ran aground at Rusk Holm, Isle of Eday. Her signals of distress were seen by...
Royal
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 5.33 A.M. on the 12th October, 1939, the coastguard reported a ship ashore on the Goswick Sands. The weather was wet and cold, with a moderate easterly breeze and a heavy swell. At 5.57 A.M. the motor...
District Conference: Greater London
A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution,...
Category: Meetings
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On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.
One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily...
Sunbeam
The Humber, Yorkshire.—On the afternoon of the 19th September the pleasure motor boat Sunbeam, of Cleethorpes, took a party of fourteen to Spurn. Shortly after she had left on the return journey the signal-station watchman reported that she...
Heron
GREEK AND DANISH STEAMERS IN COLLISION Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—On the morning of the 28th of June, 1947, the steamer Heron, of Piraeus, was in collision with the Danish steamer Stal, of Copenhagen, and sank fourteen miles east-south...
Frederik and Steam Trawler Ben Aden
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—At 2.30 P.M. on the 8th August, 1938, information was received that a ship was ashore on Whitburn Steel. Later it was reported that a trawler also was ashore. The sea was smooth, with a light northerly breeze. It was...
Sea Knight
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 11.40 on the morning of the 7th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a wireless message had been received from the Norwegian tanker Sigurdrinde that a yacht had been taken in tow...
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Torbay, Devon.—At 11.40 on the night of the 14th of July, 1957, the Berry Head coastguard telephoned to say a doctor had asked if the life-boat would put out to bring ashore a man who had fallen down a cliff at Shankham Point, as it would be...