LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hamburg
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—30th May, 1938. The German yacht Hamburg had grounded at the mouth of the River Crouch, but refloated without help.— Rewards, £11 6s. (See special account on page 538.).
Centenary Vellums
CENTENARY Vellums have been presented to a number of Stations during the present year, and reports of these Ceremonies'will appear in the next issue of The Lifeboat..
Category: Awards
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
Thistle
TOW FOR CABIN CRUISER THROUGH HEAVY SEAS Troon, Ayrshire. At 11.45 on the morning of the 9th September, 1962, the pilot at Troon harbour told the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was drifting close to Gailes shore. At 11.55 the life-boat James...
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INJURED WOMAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th February, 1963, the local nurse asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a seriously injured elderly woman to Rossaveel on...
Tom Pepper
Dover, Kent. At 9.10 on the night of the 26th of May, 1958, the Sandgate coastguard told the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel was drifting without lights a mile and a half south of the coastguard station. At 9.30 the life- boat...
Mollihawke IV
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.40 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was dragging her anchor one mile south of the Sow and Pig buoy. At 8.54 the life-boat City of Bradford...
Xmas Morn
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. On the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1959, the skipper of the herring drifter Xmas Morn, on passage from Great Yarmouth to Fraserburgh, decided because of the weather conditions at Fraserburgh to enter...
Cliffwind
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 9.16 on the evening of the 2nd of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a message re- ceived from the Cork lightvessel that a flare had been fired from a small boat a quarter of a mile...
A Sailing Dinghy
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 24th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a sailing dinghy had capsized two miles north-west of Penrhos beach and that her crew of two were clingingto her....