LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Kernoozer
MARCH 19TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
About 12.35 in the morning a message came from the Bridlington coastguard that distress rockets had been seen at Hornsea, eleven miles south of Bridlington, and at 1 A.M. the motor...
Louis Fourteenth, of Dunkirk
On the night of the 24th November the barque Louis Fourteenth, of Dunkirk, parted her cables in Dungeness Roads, and afterwards became a total wreck, on Romney Hoy, during a strong gale of wind from the S.S.E., with heavy rain. The New...
Out in the cold
When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’
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The S.S. Lydie
.—In foggy weather on the 7th July at 4.10 P.M. a telephone message was received from the Coastguard stating that a large steamer was aground on the Cross Sand. The steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 proceeded to the vessel which proved to...
The S.S. Baron Elibank
Dover, Kent.—-At 9.35 in the morning of the 21st of August, 1948, the Sand- gate coastguard reported information from the s.s. Baron Elibank that two men had been seen in a rowing boat eight miles east by south of Dover, and the motor...
The Great Storm
THE great storm of the 31st of January —1st of February, 1953, has had a chronicler of distinction in Mr. J.
Lennox Kerr.* Mr. Kerr has recorded the happen- ings at sea around our coasts on those two extraordinary days when...
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News from the Branches. 1st April to 30th June
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK (MIDDLESEX).
—Annual Meeting on llth April.
Speakers : The Mayor and the District Organizing Secretary....
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The Storeyard's Children's Party
FOR the second year the Staff at the Institution's Storeyard at Poplar, with the help of the Staff at Headquarters, | gave a Christmas Tea and Entertain- ment to about 160 children living in the neighbourhood of the Storeyard. It was...
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Eyedale, of Eyemouth
JUST after midnight of 28th April, the driver and fireman of a railway train entering Berwick-on-Tweed reported that they had seen signals of distress close in shore. The railway station rang up the Coast Guard, who informed the Life-Boat...
The S.S. Achilles
HARWICH and ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been fired by the Cork Lightvessel, the Harwich steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland, with the reserve Boat in tow, went out at 4 A.M., on the 20th October, proceeded to the Light-ship, and was...