LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hopper Novia Magum
Dover, Kent.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the Dutch tug Loire had wirelessed that she had been towing the hopper Novia Magum, which had two men on board, but that the hopper...
The S.S. Dunleith
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—-At 7.15 A.M. on the 25th November, 1938, the life-boat assistant motor mechanic saw a vessel aground on Newcombe Sands. There was a heavy swell on the sands, and the sea was moderate, with a freshening S.S.E. wind. The...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 25TH. - RAMSGATE. KENT. At 6.34 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the R.A.F. command at Manston had reported an aeroplane down in the sea approximately five miles from Dunkirk, and that the naval authorities...
Thea, of Groningen
APRIL 2 8TH. - BRIDLINGTON AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. On the night of the 27th the Dutch motor vessel Thea, of Groningen, bound with a cargo of china clay from Grangemouth to Antwerp, foundered in Bridlington Bay. She had eight on board....
Two New Life-Boat Films
Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...
Category: Articles
Ex-Coxswain John W. Bushell, of Blyth
Coxswain John William Bushell, of Blyth, who died on 24th September, at the age of 61, was for nearly twenty- four years the coxswain of the Blyth life-boat, and before that had been its second coxswain for two years. He won, by his...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
DURING the past year the difficulties— at all times serious—encountered by those endeavouring by personal effort to raise money for, and increase public interest in, deserving charities and in- stitutions have been in evidence in a greater...
Category: Articles
Samaritano
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...
Elmela (1)
Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...
Donna Maria
RAMSGATE.—On the 30th July, signal guns were fired from the Gull light-ship.
The Vulcan steam-tug and Bradford No. 2 Life-boat were manned as quickly as possible,, and proceeded direct for a vessel which was observed ashore...