LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Seaham Disaster
At 3.55 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Seaham life-boat station, Captain R. Hudson, was informed by the coast- guard that, according to a report from a local fisherman, a small boat was still out and...
Category: Articles
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Search in fog THICK FOG had descended on Scarborough when, on the night of Saturday July 27, 1985, the lifeboat station's honorary secretary received a report that red flares had been sighted some 2'/2 to 3 miles south of the...
New Life-Boats
CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat which has done duty at Cress- well since 1889 has been replaced by a new boat of the self-righting Ruble type, 34 ft. long by 8 ft. wide, fitted with one water-ballast tank and rowing 10 oars double...
Category: Inaugurations
Signals of Distress In the Night
THE need has been long felt of a shipwreck night-signal of distress, which could be seen from a far distance; be as different as possible from ordinary lights, so as not to be mistaken for one; be inexpensive, and above all be portable and...
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Remuneration for Saving Life from Shipwreck
ANY person who has travelled on our seacoasts, and has been in the habit of conversing with the fishermen and other seamen at the various ports, fishing-towns, and wateringplaces, on the subject of their rendering assistance to shipwrecked...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
FlamborOUgh - Atlantic 75 Jason Logg It was a cool and windy morning at South Landing, Flamborough on 18 June 1994 for the naming ceremony and service of dedication of the new Atlantic 75 lifeboat Jason Logg - but fortunately the rain stayed...
Category: Inaugurations
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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DOCTOR ON BOARD At 10.20 a.m. on i5th November, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a seriously ill child on the island of Inishere needed medical attention. The sea was rough with a near gale force north-westerly wind...
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Galway Bay. At 10.50 p.m. on i ith August, 1965, the local doctor asked for use of the life-boat to take an elderly man to the mainland for hospital treatment. As no other boat was available, the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her...