LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hans Hoth (1)
Tynemouth, and Culler-coats, Northumberland.
—At 11.43 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Hans Hoth, of Hamburg, of 370 tons, with a crew of nine, had wirelessed...
A Boat and a Catamaran
Committee boat A RACE had been organised for dinghies at Blackpool Light Craft Club off Squires Gate on Saturday afternoon, June 13, 1981, but it was cancelled because of rising wind and sea. All the dinghies came ashore unaided but the...
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
Past and Present
50 years ago LIFE-BOAT BULLETIN No.24 1946 A year of peace In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives.
That is an average of 56 lives a month and is only 50 lives less...
Category: Articles
Weathering St Jude
As we turned back our clocks at the end of October, many of us braced ourselves for the arrival of St Jude: a storm named after the patron saint of desperate cases
It was expected to be the...
Category: Articles
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
The Screw Flat Victoria
The screw flat Victoria, of Liverpool, bound from Pen- maenmawr to Birkenhead with a cargo of macadam, became unmanageable in the Rock Channel on the 12th March, in consequence of a mishap to the steering gear and the bursting of the...
The Admiralty Mooring Vessel Moorcock
Way, Inner Hebrides.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 25th of November, 1948, a trawler appeared to be ashore oft Bonahaven Distillery and was seen to be showing a light. The motor life- boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 9.3 in a strong...
Comedies of a Cow—And a Burning Chimney
THE false alarms which call out life- boats are very varied. On the 26th October last, with a gale blowing, the Plymouth motor life-boat put out— because a cow had gone wandering.
At 6.30 in the evening the coastguard at...
Category: Articles
Nola and a 10-Feet Outboard Dinghy
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.45 in the morning of the 2nd of June, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard telephoned that the pilot cutter Penlee had reported a small yacht in distress about two miles north-east of Sunk Head Tower. At...