LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Providentia, of Svelvig
Again, on the 24th March, the same life-boat went off to the rescue of the crew of the brig Prtmdentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen. In running for the harbour, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the vessel had struck on the rocks near the...
From a Poor Children's Camp
A GIFT of 5s. 8d. has been received from a holiday camp of 180 poor children of Hull. These children were sent for a holiday by friends to a camp on the Humber, near the life-boat station at Spurn Point. They asked their officers if they...
Category: Donations
A Small Pulling Boat
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 8.50, on the evening of the 29th of August, 1950, it was learned that a small pulling boat from Caol Ha Distillery had been carried south through the Sound of Islay and would be unable to return against the tide....
Buizerd
MARCH 1 3TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
Shortly after 1 A.M. the Kettleness coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel ashore on Kalder Steel. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing, with a slight sea and heavy rain....
Foxfield
INJURED IN EXPLOSION Dover, Kent. At 2.8 p.m. on 3rd February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Foxfield had reported an explosion on board and needed the services of a doctor, life-boat and a tug....
Goosander and Barbar
Swanage, Dorset. At 5.57 on the evening of the 17th of April, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Anvil Point lighthouse keeper had seen a yacht with a dinghy astern drifting to the westward, with the yacht's...
Rnli Medina 35 from Page 19
from page 19 modern lifeboat engines, so that they will continue to operate normally after a capsize. Access is by watertight hatches and ample ventilation trunks keep the engine room unusually cool; these trunks go right down to the bottom...
Category: Articles
Mary-Brigitte
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 7th of February, 1959, the coxswain of the Valentia life-boat was informed that the French trawler Mary-Brigitte of Concarneau was sinking three miles south of the...
Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham
By the death of Miss M. E. Taylor, of Clapham; on 17th May last, at the age of ninety-five, the Institution lost a friend who, in spite of her great age and the loss of her sight fifty years ago, found means to help it until her...
Category: Obituaries
Gardner Engines (Sales) Ltd.
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Telephone: Head Office & Works: 061-789 2201. London: 01-828 3315. Glasgow:...
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