LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...
Speed
RAMSGATE.—At 6 A.M. on the 5th Jan., in consequence of signals of distress exhibited from the lightships, the Life-boat Bradford proceeded, in tow of the steamer Aid, to the assistance of the brig Speed, of Sunderland, which was ashore on...
A Flying Boat
St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...
Tijl Uilenspiegel
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
A Speed Boat
SPEED BOAT OUT OF FUEL Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.5 p.m.
on ist August, 1965, a speed boat was reported drifting out to sea off Lee-over- Sands. The people in it were waving their arms. There was a light southerly breeze...
Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd April, 1939, a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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Morning Star
MAN WITH INJURED HAND LANDED Boulmer, Northumberland. The Tynemouth coastguard inquired at 10.32 on the evening of Wednesday the 18th September, 1963, if it was possible to launch the Boulmer life-boat to land an injured man from the 25-ton...
Hebe
During a heavy W.N.W. gale, which was experi- enced on the Lancashire coast on the 11 th December, the Life-boats were called out to the assistance of the steamer Hebe, of Bergen, bound from Norway to Preston with a cargo of wood pulp. The...
An Anson Aeroplane
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...