LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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Piciess
Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...
In Gratitude for Quiet Nights
A number of people are showing their gratitude for nights without air raids by giving a penny to the life-boat service for each quiet night. Among such gifts received are £n from the staff of a post office sorting office in Duhvich and...
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The S.S. Ford Fisher, of Barrow
Dungeness, Kent. — At about [11.30 M. on the 10th December, 1937,information was received from a local boatman that a steamer was aground off the No. 2 Station. A whole S.S.^T gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and heavy rain. The No. 2...
An Aeroplane (60)
APRIL 18TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK.
Flares had been reported several miles south of Skilligs, but nothing could be found. The life-boat put out again to a German aeroplane which had crashed in the sea, but the six airmen had...
Life-Boat Inns
A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.
The disaster occurred on the 13th...
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The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
FOWEY (POLKERRIS), CORNWALL. On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request...
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A Fishing Boat
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—At 12.45 in the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1949, information was telephoned from Duncannon that a local fishing boat was in distress off Broom Hill, and the life-boat Annie Blanche Smith was launched at 1.10...
Secondary Stations Closed
The no. 2 life-boat has been with- drawn from Padstow and transferred to Poole, and the Padstow no. 2 station was officially closed on the 31st March, 1962. Siltation at the toe of the slip- way and generally in the cove has in recent years...
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