LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gannet
NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIBE.—Signals of distress having been seen from a vessel stranded on the North Sands during a moderate S.W. wind and a choppy sea, on the 27th January, the crew of the Lifeboat 'Alexander Charles and William Aird were...
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HELICOPTER TAKES OFF CREW OF MOTOR CRUISER Wells, Norfolk. At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 19th September, 1962, the coastguard told the life-boat coxswain that a motor cruiser might need help in the channel near the harbour bar. She was in...
Sunday Concerts
THE Committee of Management have had before them the question of Sunday concerts and other Sunday entertain- ments ; and it has been represented to them that support for the Life-boat Cause may be made an excuse for the promotion of Sunday...
Category: Articles
Adventure
Soon after mid- night on the 30th November it was reported that a fishing boat was burning flares four miles south of Porthleven.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea and heavy rain showers. The motor...
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Category: Advertisement
Emanuel
While Coxswain John Swan was on the beach on the 21st October, he observed the fishing- smack Emanuel, of Lowestoft, ground on the N.E. part of the Newcome Sands, while outward bound to fish, owing to the wind falling away and the tide...
Ethiopia
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th January a strong gale was experienced from N.N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, very cold weather and snowstorms, and the crew of the Life-boat Star of Hope were on duty all night, as there were three vessels at...
Vestfart
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 7.45 on the evening of the 26th of November, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a Swedish tanker had rescued the crew of six of the motor fishing vessel Vestfart, of Gothenburg, which had capsized, and...
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Dover, Kent. — At 5.57 on the evening of the 30th of May, 1955. the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that two boys had been cut off by the tide at Big Fall, South Foreland.' At 6.20 the life-boat E.M.E.D., on temporary duty at the station,...
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X boat used stranded on in rescue of youths rockLifeboat services are not always in heavy weather and not always to professional or amateur mariners, as a service by Douglas's Tyne this summer illustrated.
On a fine but...