LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northumbrian Coast and the Egyptian Prince
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.3 on the afternoon of the 4th of March, 1953, the coastguard reported that two vessels had been in collision near Lower Hope Buoy and that one was beginning to sink. The life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
Category: Articles
The American Steamers Am-Mer-Mar and The Luray Victory, of Los Angeles
JANUARY 30TH - 31ST. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.20 at night, just after the lifeboat had returned from the American steamer Am-Mer-Mar, which had gone aground on the Goodwin Sands, but had got off without help, the Deal coastguard reported another...
Miners and the Life-Boat Service
ON the 18th September a very successful procession took place at Ashington, and as a result of it and of a ball which followed, a sum of over £174 was raised for the Institution. Ashington is a min- ing village, and the Day was...
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A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 1.5 p.m. on iyth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was in difficulties with her engine broken down, in Red Wharf Bay, and a rowing boat which had put out to help was...
Poly, Mary, Congress Bell and Sheila
On the 19th September four fishing boats which had left har- bour early in the morning were seen to be in trouble five or six miles north of the harbour. A moderate S.S.E. gale had sprung up, bringing a rough sea and heavy rain. The motor...
Ocean Venturer, Success and Lead Us
CONDITIONS DETERIORATING At 8.50 a.m. on 22nd November, 1965, conditions on and near the harbour were rapidly deteriorating and two motor fishing vessels, still at sea, were due to return to harbour. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
The Patricia and the Life-Boat Service
THE British and Northern Shipping Agency opened to the public their new Swedish Lloyd steamer Patricia, berthed by London Bridge on Sunday, May 27th, 1951. Four thousand one hundred and fourteen people went over her, and the gross takings...
Category: Donations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At the request of the crew, the boat on this station has been replaced by a new self-righting Life- boat, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 8 oars double-banked. A new transport- ing-carriage was sent with the boat....
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.—The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has established a new and additional Station at Aldeburgh, in order to strengthen the Life-boat service on that part of the coast, the local committee unanimously concurring, and a...
Category: Articles