LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emmanuel
On the 25th November, at about 3 P.M., the Coxswain of the Life-boat saw a smack ground on the Newcombe Sands, and in response to her signals the No. 1 Life-boat Kentwell was launched. After reaching the smack the Life-boat succeeded in ...
The S.S. Reading
During moderately fine weather on the 6th November the s.s. Beading, of Cardiff stranded on the Cannon Rock, whilsl bound from Seville to Glasgow, with a cargo of iron ore. Information of the easualty reached Cloughey at aboul 8 P.M., and...
Prince Lewellen & The Scotch Fishing Craft Victoria
In the early morning of the 6th September a tele- phone message was received stating that two steamers had been in collision about four miles to the southward of the Point, and that one was apparently sinking. The crew of the No. 1 Life-...
Ex Bacchus
On the 13th July the motor boat ex-Bacchus, while on passage from Burnham-on-Crouch to Southend-on-Sea, with a woman and two men aboard, ran out of petrol off West Shoebury buoy and began to drift helplessly. A moderate W. breeze was blowing...
Betty Russell
CLACTON.—A vessel having been seen apparently stranded on the Barrow Sand, and showing a signal of distress, on the 7th April, the Life-boat Albert Edward was launched at 2.23 P.M. in a moderate sea, a strong breeze blowing from E.S.E.,...
Charmaine
Margate, Kent. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been drifting eastwards towards the North Spit buoy and was dangerously near Margate sands. The life-boat North...
A Yacht and a Punt
While the honorary secretary was completing his records of the above service his attention was drawn to a small yacht with three youths on board, in difficulties half a mile off shore. At 1.13 p.m. the IRB launched and took the three youths...
Troon:
Troon: Monday February 27, 1984, at 1135, Troon's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, Connel Elizabeth Cargill, under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson, left her mooring after reports that the tug Garnock had been damaged by an... - View image in PDF
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Clacton Lifeboat Station
To commemorate the RNLI's 160th year, an amateur radio station was set up for a weekend in August at Clacton lifeboat station, thanks to the co-operation of the crew and honorary secretary. Its 12 operators were drawn from Harlow Radio... - View image in PDF
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Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 275 Lifeboat Services 276 A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court 282 Volume XLIII ._ , 150th Anniversary Celebrations in Scotland 285 Number 451 Coming Events 285 Arun Development 286 Sea Rescue: a...
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