LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Magnet (1)
WITHOUT SLEEP FOR SEVENTY HOURS Ramtgate, and Walmer, Kent.—At 5.56 in th« evening of the 26th of No- vember, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been received from Margate that a barge with her topmast...
Pamir (2)
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
Isabella
LYTHAM, LANCASHIEE.—The Life-boat Charles Biggs, was launched at 7.15 A.M.
on the 31st of May, to the assistance of the schooner Isabella, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth for Preston with a cargo of china clay, which had...
Sophia
DUNBAR, N.B.—On the 27th February, at about 8 A.M., a small vessel was seen riding at anchor in comparatively shallow water, with a signal of distress flying, about five miles E. of Dunbar. The Lifeboat Wallace put off to her assistance, and...
A Dinghy (4)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 5.50 on the evening of the 15th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had capsized in Hartlepool Bay near the shore and that two people were clinging to her.
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H.M.S. Barcombe
Islay, Hebrides. At 9.40 on the night of the 13th of January, 1958, the the Kilchoman coastguard informed the honorary secretary that H.M.S. Bar- combe was aground on Oronsay. At 10.5 the life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth put out in a slight sea...
Minotaur
— On the 28th March, during moderately rough weather a message was received by telephone stating that a steam trawler had stranded, and was in great danger near the old foundation of the Kilasea Beacon. The crew of the Life-boat Doc.ea...
A Catamaran (1)
Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...
Arawatta
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—Just be- fore midnight on the 29th of August, 1949, the coastguard reported flares about three miles to the eastward, and the life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched twenty minutes after midnight. A south-westerly breeze...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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