LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Freja Svea
Shortly before this issue went to press Hartlepool's Waveney Class lifeboat The Scout capsized twice while on service to the 97,000 ton tanker Freja Svea which was dragging her anchor and eventually went aground in Severe Gale Force...
The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...
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Britannia Rescue
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Blair Nevis
NOVEMBER 24TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 10.15 In the morning the naval authorities asked that the life-boat should be launched to go to the help of a vessel 15 miles east of Gorleston.
The vessel had been...
Pelton
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...
The S.S. Mertainer
FEBRUARY 3RD. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before 1 P.M. information was received from the Flamborough Royal Naval Shore Signal Station that a vessel was in distress off Flamborough with her boats out. An easterly wind was, blowing,...
In with the new
A sense of new beginnings makes Spring a good season for the naming ceremonies of new lifeboats and this year was no exception.
Namings included D class lifeboats for Fowey, Redcar, Clifden, Aldeburgh and the relief fl eet...
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From the Empire Overseas.
Many gifts have shown the generous interests of British people overseas in the life-boat service at home. The Government School at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, which has about a hundred scholars, has sent £50. The Kenya War Welfare Fund has...
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District Inspectors
Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....
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