LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Minesweeper
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY MINESWEEPER AGROUND Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.2 on the morning of the 2nd April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a minesweeper had been reported ashore near St. Catherine's Point. There...
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...
A Scottish Life-Boat Visits Nottingham
THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...
Category: Articles
Kylequeen
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Kylequeen was in difficulties seven miles south-west of St. Anne's...
Mr. H. Arthur Baker
BY the death of ME. H. ARTHUR BAKER, on 11th December, 1946, the Committee of Management have lost a colleague whose devoted services they feel that they can ill spare. He became a member in 1925, and was appointed a vice-president in...
Category: Obituaries
Beecher Stowe
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIBE.—On the morning of the 16th December the barque Beecher Stowe, laden with deals, was driven ashore off Mablethorpe. The Sutton Lifeboat, the Caroline, was then drawn to the spot, 3 miles, by land, and launched to the aid...
A Gallant Mechanic
ON 21st October last the mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, Mr.
H. W. Jefferson, was at work in the Boat-house cleaning the engine. He went on deck to turn the crank-shaft by hand, and the engine backfired and set...
Category: Articles
Royal Humane Society Awards for Cromer
THE Royal Humane Society has pre- sented its Testimonial on Parchment and Resuscitation Certificate to Robert Charles Davis, the bowman of the Cromer life-boat, and its Resuscitation Certificate to Coxswain Henry Thomas Davis for the rescue...
Category: Awards
Georgio
Nov. 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
It was eight at night when the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched to the help of a foreign steamer, the Georgios, of Piraeus. The night was very dark. A moderate wind was...
Mary
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 10.23 on the morning of the 18th of May, 1957, the Formby coastguard telephoned that one of the crew of the fishing boat Mary, of Liverpool, who had just waded ashore, had reported that the boat was aground with...