LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Manzoni
OC T . 2 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 7.55 P.M. the Deal coastguard reported that two steamers had been in collision near the Fork Buoy. A strong squally N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat Charles Dibdin (Civil...
To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
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The Open Motor Coble Lily
APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...
Servic (1)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, and Tees- mouth, Yorkshire. At 5.10 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1957, the South Gare coastguard told the Teesmouth honorary secretary that a vessel was firing rockets one mile north of the breakwater. At 5...
Profile of the Offshore Fleet
Lifeboats stationed round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland WATSON AND BARNETT, Oakley, Waveney, Thames, Arun or Clyde . . . names which conjure up the lifeboats of the RNLI's offshore fleet, each with her own characteristics, her...
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A Steamer (8)
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Don- aghadee, Co. Down.—25th February.
A steamer stranded, but of the people on board some were taken off by another vessel and others reached the shore over the rocks.—Rewards, Port- patrick,...
A Pilot Cutter's Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—23rd January.
A pilot cutter's boat had capsized, and a steamer had picked up one man. The other two had been drowned before help could reach them. The boat and rescued man were brought ashore by the...
The Bull Light-Vessel (1)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—29th April.
A steamer reported by wireless that she had been in collision with the Bull lightvessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel did not need help.— Permanent paid crew..
The S.S. Niord
Watchet, Somerset.—llth May. A boat from the s.s. Niord, of Gothenburg, had tried to reach the harbour in a N.E. gale. She got into difficulties, but made Minehead without help.
Later the life-boat put the men back on their...
A Fishing Boat (3)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—10th September.
A fishing boat was expected to make for the harbour, and the life-boat put out to escort her in, but she ran for Scarborough instead. — Rewards, £5 12s. Qd..