LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...

At 8.30 A.M.

on the llth October the Coastguard reported that a vessel was flying signals of distress off Saltdean. The Michael Henry motor Life-boat was at once launched and proceeded to the spot; she found the brigantine...

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NOV. 4TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.7 P.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with squalls. There was a...

PETERHEAD, N.B.—On the 31st August the boats prosecuting the herring fishing at Peterhead proceeded to sea. During the night a strong breeze sprang up from the N.E. and raised a heavy sea, and the boats ran for the harbour. About 11...

Captain Hans Hansson was formerly Director and then Chairman of the Swedish Lifeboat Service.

He was made an Honorary Life Governor of the RNLI in 1972..

Valentia, Co. Kerry.—On the 3rd of February, 1953, the Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief keepers and supplies to the Skelligs Rocks lighthouse, as the Commissioners' steamer was on duty elsewhere. At...

FISHING VESSEL'S ENGINE BREAKS DOWN New Brighton, Cheshire. At half past twelve on the morning of Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coxswain repor- ted that the fishing vessel Phoenician had broken down with engine trouble and had...