LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Canoe
Ramsgate, Kent. — 22nd August.
Two German students had been re- ported as six miles east of the East Goodwin light-vessel in a canoe. The life-boat went out to look for them, but they reached Ramsgate without help.—Rewards,...
The S.S. Sveti-Duze, of Susak
Ramsgate, Kent.—25th April. The s.s. Sveti-Duze, of Susak, Yugoslavia, had collided with another steamer off the East Goodwin Sands, but both steamers were able to go on their way.
—Rewards, £5 8s..
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GEAR SELECTOR VALVE Torbay Lifeboat 'Princess Alexandra of Kent' showing use of MD24 control with GARDNER LW engine and DC gearbox hydraulically actuated GOVENOR CONTROL 'It's simplicity itself (AN ASSOCIATE COMPANY OF MORSE...
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Relief Fleet - Mersey Class Marine Engineer
An air of cheerful expectancy surrounded the Docklands Sailing Centre, Isle of Dogs, on 25 April 1991 for the visit of HRH The Duchess of Kent to name the relief Mersey class lifeboat Marine Engineer. The morning dawned bright enough, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.
The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat (1)
JUNE 17TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rowing boat was overdue and believed to be in difficulties, but later a report was received that the boat had been found and was safe.
Mr. P. E. W. Gellatly, the honorary secretary, went out in...
Two Barges
MARCH 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. Two large barges, which had broken away from a tug, were drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. The life-boat went alongside them and made sure that there was no one on board. She could not take them in tow, and as...
Emma and a Motor Boat
JUNE 2ND. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued twenty-three men from the Swedish steamer Emma and fifteen. British soldiers from a disabled motor boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force...
A Rubber Boat (1)
JUNE 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A rubber boat, with one person on board, had been seen four miles to the north of Foreness, but nothing was found except an empty case and some small pieces of wreckage. - Rewards, £4 19s..
An Aeroplane (107)
AUGUST 2 6TH. - MARGATE, KENT Intense machine-gun fire had been heard, an aeroplane on fire was seen falling into the sea, and an airman, and then three more airmen, were seen coming down by parachute, but they were picked up by other boats....