LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hassel
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent.—At 4.13 on the morning of the 3rd of May, 1956, the Lade coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Dungeness to say the motor vessel Hassel, of Bergen, Norway, had been in collision with an unknown vessel...
Annual Report. 1904
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall, on Wednesday, the 16th day of March, 1904, The Eight Hon. Lord BRASSEY, K.C.B., in the Chair, the following...
Category: Annual Reports
Life-Boat Conferences
North-West of England.
A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers was held at Southport on the 10th April.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Southport (Councillor and Mrs. John Brook) welcomed the delegates, and the chair...
Category: Meetings
None (3)
Snow IN THE SEVERE SNOW STORMS last January lifeboatmen from several stations in Wales played an important part in helping to get medical supplies and food through to villages which were cut off by deep snow drifts and impassable roads and...
A Small Boat (2)
The motor life- boat G.W. was launched in a strong S.W. breeze, with a rough sea, at noon on the 30th August, as a report had been received that a small boat to the N.E. of Moelfre Island was making signals of distress. The life-boat found...
Widgeon II
Margate, Kent. — At 7.41 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was aground on Margate Sands. At 7.50 the life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11} was launched. The sea was slight, there was a...
Fishing Boats (6)
Whitby, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 2nd January, 1939, anumber of fishing boats went to sea.
At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the...
Emmanuel
On the 25th November, at about 3 P.M., the Coxswain of the Life-boat saw a smack ground on the Newcombe Sands, and in response to her signals the No. 1 Life-boat Kentwell was launched. After reaching the smack the Life-boat succeeded in ...
A Vessel
At 10.8 P.M. on the 15th June information was received by wire- less from the Cross Sand Lightvessel, through the Coastguard, that a vessel was burning flares about five miles south of the Cross Sand. The Motor Life-boat John and Mary...
A Dinghy
Aberdeen - At 11.39 p.m. on 2nd March, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an outboard dinghy with four people on board which had left Stonehaven at 7.30 was overdue. At 12.20 a.m.
as none of the...