LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Juniper, of Aberdeen
On 19th February, 1967, the life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane rescued the crew of the trawler Juniper of Aberdeen.
A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew, will appear...
Reserve Fleets of Life-Boats
IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1878-79
THE last Wreck Register of the British Isles published by the Board of Trade continues to tell the same sad tale of fearful disasters at sea as of yore, last year claiming 3,002 as haying occurred in the seas and on the coasts of the United...
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Aden, of Liverpool
he Florence Life-boat of this station proceeded through heavy squalls to the assistance of the schooner Aden, ...
The American Steamer Park Holland, of Portland, Maine (2)
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...
The Seine Net Fishing Boat Elna, of Esbjerg
JULY 2ND. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10.30 at night the coastguard telephoned that a Danish fishing boat was lying two miles north-north-east of Cullernose Point, apparently in need of help.
The motor...
Hopper No. 2, of Preston (1)
NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
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F.E. 88
Dover, Kent. At 5.25 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a local fishing boat was mis- sing off Folkestone. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 6.3 it was low water....
Six Sisters, of Hull
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 1.40 P.M. on the 18th August the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired guns and hoisted signals to indicate a vessel in distress somewhere E. by N. of the lightvessel.