LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

AUGUST 9TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.45 at night. the Deal coastguard reported that a tug, with a barge in tow, was about four miles to the south-east of the South Goodwin No. 2 Buoy. A north-west gale was blowing, with blinding rain and a very...

IN our last number we commented on the j first portion of this important Report, comprising the clauses on "Overloading and Load Line," "Deck Loads," "Grain j Cargoes," and "Survey of British Merchant Ships...

The annual summer appeal made last year by the fishwives of Cullercoats raised £278. This is the twentieth year of their appeal, and this is the largest sum which the* hare ever raised. The total is now £-2983..

" On the morning of the 17th December, we were summoned by the firing of minute guns and other signals of distress from some vessel on the Goodwin Sands, and at 3 A.M. we launched from Walmer and Kingsdowne simultaneously in the Cen-...

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Cromarty.—At 11.34 on the night of the 14th of May, 1951, the coastguard reported that the sailing cutter Mar- garet, with thirteen boys and one officer from the Moray Firth Sea School on board, was overdue. She had last been seen between...

LOSSIEMOUTH.—On the 1st January, 1861 the sloop Thomas and Jane, of Dundee carried away her main boom, and having nearly four feet of water in her hold, and the master and crew being quite exhausted hoisted a signal of distress, which was...

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