LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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UNSEATED THEN TREATED At 7.30 p.m. on 9th January, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a young woman who had fallen from her bicycle needed hospital treatment. As no other boat was available the life-boat Mabel Marion...
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986
Meet Miss Penlee Lifeboat 1986. She is the first in what the local branch hope will be a succession of beauties, all of whom will help promote local RNLI activities. Karen Bennetts was chosen from many contestants at a special fund raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Copeland
OCT. 23RD. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 1.45 P.M. the signal station reported that a vessel was ashore on the Shoebury Sands. The weather was calm, and the sea smooth. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3)...
Louci Gougy
MAY 26TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 12.10 A.M. a message was received from the South Goodwin Light-vessel through theDeal coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the sands to the N.E. by E. A N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
Zana
OCTOBER 19TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
At 4.48 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore one mile to the east, and at 5.50, in calm weather, the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. She...
The Life-Boat
(See Diagramson opposite page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the...
Category: Articles
Not Forgot, the Henry, the Renown and the John Herbert
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.<...
Thorium
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 7.45 Oft the night of the llth of January, 1951, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Thorium, of Liver- pool, laden with 600 tons of limestone, had wirelessed from near the Lune Buoy that...
Charles H. Merz
ESCORT AFTER MOTOR VESSEL IS REFLOATED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 1.30 on the morning of the 31st May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a vessel was reported to have run ashore at the north pier at the entrance to the River...
Thalatta, of Harwich
JANUARY 19TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.48 in the afternoon the coastguard reported a sailing barge flying a signal.
A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a heavy swell and squalls of snow. The motor life-boat...