LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Provider A, Easier Morn, Gem, Venus and Enterprise
Whitby, Yorkshire.—In the morning of the 26th of April, 1949, there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance that would endanger the return of the fishing boats. When five were seen approaching two members of the harbour pulling...
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Dover, Kent. — On the morning of the 8th of May, 1955, two soldiers who were bird's-nesting at South Foreland, were cut off by the tide. The Sand- gate coastguard rang up the life-boat station at 11.22, and at noon the life- boat E.M.E.D...
A Whaler and a Dinghy
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the after- noon of the 17th of May, 1955, Lloyds signal station reported that a whaler, with five boys from Dover College oil board, which had a dinghy in tow with three boys on board, had been blown out of Dover...
Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. On the morning of the 26th of November, 1959, there was a very heavy swell at the entrance to the harbour, and the local fishing fleet were having difficulty in entering. Danger signals were hoist- ed, and...
Atlantis
ENGINE FAILURE Selsey, Sussex. At 1.15 p.m. on nth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the German motor vessel Atlantis then two miles south-west of Littlehampton had broken down with engine trouble and...
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Category: Advertisement
Morn,
JUNE 1 0TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At about noon a yacht was seen by a life-boatman ashore on the Margate Sands. A light S.E. breeze was blowing, the sea was smooth.
The motor life-boat Lord Southborough (Civil Service No. 1) was...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—Early on the morning of the 7th April, 1866, signals of distress were seen by the beachmen in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy, with a strong breeze blowing from E.N.E.
The...
Category: Services
Life-Boats of Six Countries on the Thames
LIFE-BOATS have already been seen on the Thames. In the Pageant of the Sea Services of the War, which was held on the Thames, in 1919, with the King in his Royal Barge at the head, two Life-boats took part, the steam Life-boat James Stevens...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
ABERDOVEY, MERIONETHSHIRE ; ABER- SOCH, CARNARVONSHIRE ; ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE ; GHIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE ; LITTLEHAMPTON, SUSSEX ; RLIOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY ; SIIOREHAM, SUSSEX ; ST.
AGNES, SCILLY ISLANDS ; SOUTHEND, CAXTYRE ;...
Category: Inaugurations