LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sirius
The No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched at 10.30 A.M. on the 7th May, signal guns havjng been fired by the "Wold Light-vessel. On reaching the Hasborough Sands the barque Sirius, of Drammen, timber laden, was found near Palling Knowl,...
Luna
On the 3rd June an alarm was given that there was a vessel ashore on Whitley Sands. At 4.20 A.M. the Life-boat was launched, proceeded to the vessel through a rough sea, the wind blowing a moderate breeze from N.E., and rescued her crew of...
The S.S. Texa
IRVINE.—The Life-boat Busbie was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 10th March, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. Texa, of Glasgow, bound from Glenarm for Irvine with limestone, which had stranded on the north side of the bar, at the...
Delila (1)
. Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—Early on the morning of the 4th November, 1937, the steam trawler Delila, of Aberdeen, ran aground about a mile, south of the Belhelvie coastguard station. She was homeward bound...
The Liberian Motor Vessel Tyne Ore
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 12.7 a.m.
on i8th September, 1966, the Liberian motor vessel Tyne Ore had a sick man on board who required urgent medicalattention. The life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was launched at i.io....
None (6)
Troon, Ayrshire - At 9.30 p.m. on 22nd March, 1967, a message was received that blood plasma was urgently required at Lamlash. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken, with the plasma aboard, slipped her moorings at 10.6 in a strong westerly...
The S.S. Kentwood
DEC. 27TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the S.S. Kentwood, of London, was sink-ing rapidly in the north Downs, and that her captain was trying to beach her. The Ramsgate...
Notes of the Quarter
THE sad story of the acting Selsey coxswain, Douglas Arnell, who was obliged to relinquish his post because of colour blindness, was widely reported in the press earlier this year. It may therefore be helpful to explain the RNLI's...
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Your Letters
A helping hand After leaving the River Crouch on 22 October 19951 unfortunately crossed the Swallow Tail Spit too close to the buoy at 1530, two hours before low water, and went aground.
The sea was calm and apart from...
Category: Correspondence
Swimming
THE Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have frequently brought under their notice lamentable instances of persons being drowned, from the capsizing or swamping of boats, who might probably have been saved had they been...
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