LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Owers Lightvessel
Selsey, Sussex.—At 10.55 on the night of the 17th of July, 1950, the coast- guard received a message from the .Superintendent, Trinity House, Cowes, that the master of the Owers light- vessel was ill with suspected appendi- citis. At 11.25...
Holiday-Makers Watch the Naming of the New Aberystwyth Lifeboat Aguila Wren
(See page 437). - View image in PDF
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The Prudential Is Sold
THE famous Ramsgate life-boat Pru- dential left the service of the Institu- tion in November when she was sold to Mr. F. H. W. Haywood, a London architect. The Institution's flag was struck for the last time aboard the Prudential at a...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report for the United States Coastguard for the year ending 30th June, 1915, indicates a new arrangement by which, in accordance with the passage of the Coastguard Act...
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Our President's New Office. Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets
By George F. Shee, M.A., ALL who are connected in any way with the Life-boat Service will have read with special pleasure the announcement which was made on 14th February, that the King had decided to make a personal link between the...
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The Oxford Branch
AN Oxford Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund was formed in 1900 by the late Commander Maunsell, R.N., and Mr. Belcham, Headmaster of St. Peter-iu-the-East School, who still takes a keen interest in the work of the Institution. By means...
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The Spanish Ship Uribitate
INJURED SPANIARD Scarborough, Yorkshire. At n a.m.
on 8th October, 1963, a message was received from the coastguard stating that a man was seriously ill aboard the Spanish ship Uribitate, of Bilbao, and needed a doctor. The...
The S.S. Le Blanc
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—At 6.50 P.M. on the 21st February the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey was launched in a nasty sea, with a moderate N.N.E. breeze, and stood by the s.s. Le Blanc, which had stranded near the Bell Buoy. At high water the...
Edward Wilson Better Known As Dr Billy Seaton In Bbc Tv's "When the Boat Comes In' Opened Last Year's Harbour Fete at Seahouses on August Bank Holiday Monday the Money Raised at This
Edward Wilson, better known as Dr Billy Seaton in BBC TV's "When the Boat Comes In', opened last year's harbour fete at Seahouses on August Bank Holiday Monday. The money raised at this annual event increases each year and... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Flying Enterprise (2)
The Lizard, Cadgwith, and Falmouth, Cornwall.—The S.S. Flying Enterprise, of New York, had been drifting help- lessly in the Atlantic Ocean for over a week, with only her captain on board.
She was listing very heavily. On...