LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hans Hoth (1)
Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.
—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation in 1958. One was the station at Ballycotton in County Cork ; the other was Hastings in Sussex.
The ceremony at Hastings took place on the 27th of July,...
Category: Articles
Launch to a Dutch Ship
Ox the night of the 26th-27th of November, 1954, storms were raging all over the country, and at the Lizard most of the telephones were out of action and the village was without lighting. Among those whose telephones could not be used was...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Conference In Estoril
THE seventh International Life-boat Conference took place in Estoril from the 12th to the 16th of June, 1955.
The Portuguese delegation acted as hosts, and Commodore Vasco Alves of the Portuguese Ministry of Marine was...
Category: Meetings
Panther
THE GOODWINS SPARE A SHIP As described on page 126, the Goodwin Sands seldom spare vessels that run aground. But occasionally they are lucky. At 3.36 p.m. on 30th March, 1971, the Walmer honorary secretary picked up a message reporting that...
Franklin Mint Limited.
THE COLLECTOR'S EDITION GAME All ten classic playing tokens are crafted in pewter and plated with 22 carat gold. Board shown much smaller than actual size of 20V L x 20V1 W x 3"H.
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Category: Advertisement
Obituary
THE Institution has to deplore a very great loss in the death of Miss JANE HAY, the Honorary Secretary of the St. Abbs Station, which took place on the 26th January last. Miss Hay was a remarkable personality, who united a strong love of her...
Category: Obituaries
A Large Brig
The Ramsgate life-boat has been so frequently off to the Goodwin Sands, towed by the harbour tug, in reply to night signals of distress from the floating light-vessels moored off those fatal shoals, that we cannot attempt to describe...
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie (1)
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one ofH.M. trawlers had struck a mine about...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
TYRELLA, DUNDRUM BAT, IRELAND.— During a whole gale of wind from S.S.E., on the 6th December, 1865, a schooner was seen endeavouring to beat out of Dundrum Bay. Owing to the heavy gale and the tremendous sea running, she failed in doing so,...
Category: Services