LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kajtum
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 23rd of February, 1949, the Bangor coastguard telephoned that the Swedish steamer Kajtum, of Stockholm, at anchor in Carrick Roads, Belfast Lough, was in need of a doctor, and the life-boat...
Letters
Boxed clever Gloucester's Flag Day is always held early in the year, when the weather can be guaranteed to be inclement. This year's collecting went on during a blizzard of snow! Determined to keep the chill wind from my feet and...
Category: Correspondence
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1977
Aldeburgb, Suffolk May 6 and 29.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow May 25.
Arranmore, Co. Donegal March 25 and April 22.
Baltimore, Co. Cork April 23.
Barra Island, Inverness-shire...
Category: Services
Rose, of Ipswich
On the night of the 20th December, the Life-boat George Hounsfield, stationed at this place, put off, during a gale from the S.W., in reply to signals of distress, in the shape of burning tar-barrels, from a vessel which proved to be the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dunbar, East Lothian.—-At 6.25 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the police that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in Belhaven Bay. At 7.5 the life-boat George and Sarah...
Express
SEATON CAREW.—Eockete and flares having been seen on the Longscar Bocks during an E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather on the 21st October, the Job Hindley Life-boat was launched at 7 P.M., proceeded in the direction in which the signals...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
Conqueror
The smack, Conqueror, of and for Newburgh, from Sunderland, with coal, in attempting to enter the port at midnight on the 24th November, went ashore at the south side of the entrance to the harbour. A small steam-tug went to her assistance,...
Voering
The steamer Veering, of Copenhagen, bound from Rotterdam to the Tyne, in ballast, stranded on the rocks off Whitburn in a dense fog on the night of the 23rd September. Information reached the Coxswain at about 11.30 P.M., and the Life-boat...
Coxswain Robert Cross: A Correction
IN the last issue of The Life-boat it was said that Coxswain Robert Cross of the life-boat station on the Humber, whose 'portrait appeared on the cover, had joined the crew in 1906, when the station was under the control of the Humber...
Category: Articles