LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Hamilton
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Lifeboat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of the...
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
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A Singular Coincidence
A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.* ["A curious and interesting coincidence has been communicated to me by Capt. McK-ERLiE, of the Coastguard, Stranraer. The Edinburgh life-boat, it may be remembered, was exhibited in Glasgow on the 16th Dec.,...
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Matilda
DONNA NOOK, THEDDLETHORPE, AND CLEETHOBPES, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A very severe gale occurred on the Lincolnshire coast last November, its violence being experienced more or loss for nearly nine days.
On the 8th, at 8.30 P.M.,...
Photographic Proof of the Unlikely Rumour That a Philanthropic Gorilla Was Spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show Whether It Was Fear That Encouraged the Public to Fill His Box Or Whether It Was the I
Photographic proof of the unlikely rumour that a philanthropic gorilla was spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show. Whether it was fear that encouraged the public to fill his box or whether it was the irresistible music of his pirate captor is... - View image in PDF
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The Reports of the Meteorological Council of the Royal Society for 1889 and 1890
THESE reports contain matter of very considerable general interest, showing, as they do, what has been and is being done to perfect the system of weather forecasts in this our ever-changing climate, as well as to compile a register of the...
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The Mayor of Pendle Councillor Peggy Heaton
Seventy years after the hospital ship Rohilla was driven ashore off the Yorkshire coast, a party of Whitby townspeople put to sea in Whitby's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat, The White Rose of Yorkshire, to lay wreaths above the wreck. The... - View image in PDF
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The S.S Hawkwood (1)
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT HARTLEPOOL JANUARY 26TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.55 in the morning word came from the coastguard that he had seen rockets from a vessel off Seaton Carew. The life-boat was called out at once...
H.M. Tank Landing Craft 144
DECEMBER 20TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF LEWIS. H.M. Tank Landing Craft 144 was in danger, as her engine had broken down, but she was taken in tow by one of H.M. trawlers. - Rewards, £6 13s..
Felicity of Lynn
On the 14th November the brig Felicity, of Lynn, being unable to weather Flamborough Head -in a heavy gale from E. by S., ran on shore near Filey. The life- boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION was quickly launched through a heavy...