LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lion, of Goole
BROADSTAIRS.—At 5 P.M., 12th March, the schooner Lion, of Goole, bound from Hull to the Isle of Wight, was observed driving before a heavy gale at north, with signals of distress flying. The signal guns of the station having failed to...
Menelaos, of Piraeus
Less than twelve hours later the Selsey Life-boat was again called out.
During the afternoon the Crew had stood by, as there was a good deal of traffic in the Channel, and the second call came at 10.20 P.M., when news was...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
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Scotia
At 10.20 A.M. on the llth May it was reported that a steamer was ashore on the rocks near Northcott Mouth. The sea was smooth, but the fog was very dense at the time.
The Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was launched, and...
Gazelle (1)
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
Vine
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 6th of February, 1957, the motor fishing vessel Vine, of Aberdeen, while return- ing from the fishing grounds to Camp- beltown harbour with a crew of three, struck a reef on the north end of Davaar Island. An...
The Finnish Tramp Steamer Ramfdal
FINNISH STEAMER Dunbar, East Lothian. At noon on 27th May, 1964, a fisherman reported that a vessel had run ashore about three miles north of Dunbar. Twelve minutes later the life-boat Margaret put to sea.
There was a light...
Diana (1)
Lythatn-St. Anne's, Lancashire, and New Brighton, Cheshire - At sevenminutes past midnight on I5th October, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain of the Lytham-St. Anne's life-boat that a fishing boat which left Crossens at 10...
A Merchant Vessel
Long haul for Harwich's new Severn Harwich was the first station to receive a new Severn class lifeboat (on 20 October 1996) and it was not long before the speed and endurance of the new class was put to the test.
On 12...
RNLI Rescue Map
RESCUE MAP RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland as of August 2005.
See page 42 for news of the first Tamar class lifeboat to come on station.
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