LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
— At about noon on the llth January, during a whole S.E. gale with very heavy squalls, and a rough sea, it was reported to Coxswain McEachran that a fishing- boat on a lee shore in the Loch had broken adrift, collided with and badly damaged...
The Princess Royal
H.R.H. the Princess Royal named the new Hartlepool motor life-boat "The Princess Royal" on 2ist July. The boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type, was finished in 1939 and went to her station a month after the outbreak of war. She...
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Louise (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4.38 P.M. on the 7th January, 1939, the Clacton coastguard telephoned that a barge off Holland Sluice appeared to be in difficulties.
Soon afterwards they reported...
The German Life-Boat Service
IT is with great pleasure we have to record a visit from Captain PFEIFER, the Chief Inspector of the German Life-boat Service, or, as it is called in Germany, " Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger." Captain PFEIFER...
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Called to a Man Overboard from a 14' Boat Offtunstall on April 18 In Moderate to Fresh North-Easterly Breezes and Rough Sea Withernsea Crew Members and Shore H
Called to a man overboard from a 14' boat offTunstall on April 18 in moderate to fresh north-easterly breezes and rough sea, Withernsea crew members and shore helpers rushed the ILB down to the surf.
She was away within... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Victoria
Dover, Kent.—At 1.14 in the after- noon of the 3rd of December, 1949, the Sandgate coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported in difficulties five miles south-south-east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. The life-boat Southern...
Cornel
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. — At 12.35 in the early morning, on the llthof January, 1951, the coastguard re- ported that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, about five miles north-east of Port Nevin, had a heavy list and needed help....
Darnet
On the evening of the llth July the ketch Darnet, of Maldon, was anchored between the Knocksand Bank and the Main when she parted from her anchor and drifted on to the sand. Later she floated off the sand, but went on to the Main near...
Matilda
JUNE 11TH. - DOVER, KENT. At 4.25 P.M. a message was received from the duty staff officer at Dover that a boat was drifting four miles off the Port War Signal Station, and might have people on board. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
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