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OCTOBER 12TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. At 6.30 in the evening a telephone message was received from the local doctor asking the life-boat to take a seriously injured man to Oban. He was a woodman and had had his foot badly crushed while...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the morning of the 3rd February the coastguard telephoned that conditions at sea were very bad, and that all the local cobles, thirteen in number, were out. A strong N.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a very rough...
Treacle for Oil
READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...
Category: Articles
Walls Whippy Ltd
RUNNING A SHOW THIS YEAR? HERE'S HOW TO MAKE IT MORE PROFITABLE By selling Sports days Fetes Open days Gymkhanas Scrambles Carnivals. Bazaars.
Barbecues. Pageants Regattas. Displays ice cream You collect and return...
Category: Advertisement
Many a Slip: Members of the Kent Messenger
Many a slip: Members of the Kent Messenger Social Club heard to utter an oath had to pay for their slips of the tongue. A swear box behind the bar and raffles raised £500 for East Mailing branch and chairman of the Social Club Alan Mole... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat from a Trawler
FEBRUARY 8TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Three R.A.F. men were engaged in salving an aeroplane on the Goodwin Sands. They were working in a small boat from a trawler.
Their boat capsized leaving them stranded on...
John Roberts
John Roberts, coxswain of Sennen Cove lifeboatlifeboat from 1948 until his retirement in 1959. He joined the crew in 1910 on the pulling and sailing lifeboat Ann Newhon. becoming second coxswain in 1944..
Category: Obituaries
Her Last Launch
The old Blackpool pulling and sailing life-boat putting out.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching By Tractor at Brooke, Isle of Wight
The pulling and sailing life-boat going out with Coxswain Major-General the Right Hon. - View image in PDF
Lord Mottistone, P.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., in command.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching By Tractor
The Aberdeen Pulling and Sailing Life-boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs