LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilgrimage to Fraserburgh
THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition: Presentation of Prizes
The Greater London Shield.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on 13th July, the Challenge Shield for Greater London and the individual prizes won by the schools of Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition this year...
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An Aeroplane (23)
JUNE 5TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 4s. 3d..
A Steamer (23)
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Flares had been reported, but thesteamer which was in distress got help from tugs. - Rewards, £15 6s..
Cornel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and Minehead, Somerset.—At 7.40 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1955, the Tenby coastguard rang up the Tenby life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Cornel, of Cardiff, bound for Bristol with a cargo of...
International Boat Show
AS THE CLIMAX of 'The Year of the Lifeboat', the RNLI will be playing a prominent part in the 1975 International Boat Show at Earls Court from January 1 to 11. The very first thing visitors approaching the exhibition from Warwick...
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An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
Mary B. Mitchell, of Dublin
DECEMBER 15TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT.
At five in the afternoon the Ross Lighthouse reported by telephone that a vessel appeared to be drifting, but was not showing any distress signals. A south-easterly gale was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Hubert
14th October. During a whole N.W.-gale, with a very heavy sea, an S O S was received from the s.s. Hubert, which was being towed to Troon to be broken up. The life-boat put out at 11.5 P.M., and searched unsuccessfully until 2...
Life-Boat Branches of the Shipwreck Institution
FILEY BRANCH.
Chairman—Rear-Admiral MITFORD.
Honorary Secretary—JAMES MOSEY, Esq.
Airey, H. C., Esq. . .
Beswick, W., Esq. . .
Beswick, S. K., Esq...
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