LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
End of a Voyage to New Zealand
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services from Page 11
Lifeboat Services from page 11 copters available. At 2300 Fort Grange advised the lifeboat that there were enough ships in the area to continue the search and she should return to Brixham with the survivors she had on board. She arrived at...
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(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker District Organising Secretary (Ne) Presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore Chairman Hartlepool Headland Ladies Guild and (Below) Ge
(Above) Mrs Pat Whittaker, district organising secretary (NE), presents to Her Majesty Mrs Audrey Woore, chairman, Hartlepool Headland ladies guild and (below) General Farrant presents Sir William Gladstone, The Chief Scout, and a Scout... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Stories of a Life-Boat Day
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors and ex-mayoresses on its life-boat day. Last autumn no fewer than six mayors and six mayoresses took part in the appeal. It also had among its collectors two...
Category: Articles
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
The lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds flew, Oh, wife ! from the shores they cry,' One more,' With strong, steady hand and true! There are lives to save On the frothing wave— One more for the...
Category: Poetry
Forty-Five Hours on the Goodwins. Thirty Lives Rescued from An Italian Steamer
By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...
Category: Services
A Vessel
A telephone message had in the meantime been sent to Whitelink Bay, notifying a vessel in distress, and the Coxswain of the Life-boat stationed at that place at once launched the Three Brothers and proceeded to the scene of the accident. She...
A Yacht
Hartlepool, Yorkshire - At 7.27 p.m.
on 2nd April, 1966, the coastguard told the motor mechanic that a yacht had capsized off the north pier. It was low water with a moderate easterly breeze and a corresponding sea. The...
A Dinghy
DRIFTING TO SEA Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.15 p.m. on 16th October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that three people in a small dinghy were trying to attract attention. Their craft was off Holland Haven drifting seawards...
A Canoe
Walmer, Kent. At 6.17 on the evening of the 13th June, 1961, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a Royal Marine conoeist had capsized off Deal.
There was a moderate north-north- westerly wind with a choppy sea...