WE have in previous numbers of the Life-boat Journal given accounts of the Life-saving Institutions of France and Germany, and have referred to those in other maritime countries of Europe. We feel sure that equal interest will be felt in a...
Category: Articles
Whilst turning out a drawer today I came upon some pictures showing the Worthing lifeboat and crews, we wondered if readers would be interested in seeing this cutting (left).
For some time we lived in the building right... - View image in PDF
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Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
Category: Services
Scarborough man Len Dale caught 'lifeboatmania' some months ago and started fund raising for Scarborough lifeb'oat. Over that period he and his committee have raised several thousand pounds which is to be devoted to alterations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
21st December. An aeroplane reported to have been lost in the fog came down safely in the Medway.— Rewards : Clacton, £16 19s.; Southend, £17 14s..
Hastings, Sussex.—7th August, 1938.
Flares had been reported, but a search over a wide area proved fruitless.— Rewards, £36 14s. 9d..
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A yacht had been reported missing from Herne Bay, but she returned safely. - Rewards, £12 14s..
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—At 11.25 on the night of the 16th of August, 1956, the harbourmaster reported that dis- tress signals had been observed out at sea. The life-boat George and Caroline Ermen was launched at...
On the 25th September, during a thick fog, signals of distress were heard, and the Life-boat Forster Fawsett was dis- patched as quickly as possible. Near the Crumstone Rock, Fame Island, she found the s.s. Britannia,...
The ketch Cornish Lass, of Plymouth, whilst bound from Saundersfoot to Caldy Island in ballast, stranded on the North Sands on the llth November*. A strong E.S.E. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat William and...