LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hans Hoth
Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.
—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...
Wreck of the Meridian
THE following stirring account of the wreck of the above-named vessel is abridged from an interesting narrative of the same, which appeared in the ' Morning Chronicle' of the 2nd December last, as recounted by one of the sufferers, a...
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Cachalot and Wombat and Mako
Two calls ON THE MORNING of Friday August 13, 1982, a message came at 1148 from Thames Coastguard informing Aideburgh lifeboat station of a fishing vessel, Cachalot, which had broken down; she was anchored between Orfordness and Weir Point...
Feeling the force
Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...
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Shipwreck Off St. Andrew's
ABOUT noon on Sunday the 23rd Oct., during one of the most severe and protracted gales that have occurred on the east coast of Scotland for years, a brig was observed about five miles out standing across St. Andrew's Bay for the...
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Foreign Governments and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN two instances recently the indomitable courage of the British Life-boatman has been recognised and suitably rewarded by governments of the respective countries to which the distressed vessels belonged.
The first case...
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The Royal Navy and the Life-Boats
HAVING referred elsewhere to the very practical help rendered by the Military in assisting in the launch of the Formby Life-boat, we are very glad to be able to record that the Senior Service has not been behind in rendering help when help...
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The S.S. Matra
NOV. 13TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.54 P.M. a messagc was received from the coastguard that a vessel was burning flares near the Tongue Light-vessel. A fresh S.W.
breeze was blowing. The sea was smooth.
At...
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Next generation join dads on Douglas crew
Douglas Lifeboat Station, Isle of Man, has a history of lifeboating families. Sir William Hillary, who founded the...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 30th June, 1955 - - 79,260 Notes of the Quarter H.R.II. THE DrKF. OF attended...
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