LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

On the 6th August the motor vessel Capable, of London, ran aground in Bigbury Bay in a dense fog, while bound to London with a cargo of stone.

She carried a crew of eight. The Master sent a man ashore, and the news was sent...

FILEY, YORKSHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 23rd March the fishing-boats engaged in crab-fishing put to sea for the purpose of hauling up their crab pots. The wind at the time was blowing strongly from the E.N.E.; later in the morning it increased....

DURING November and December, 1920, and January, 1921, the following awards were made to Honorary Secretaries of Branches, and to other honorary workers in recognition of their services in the cause of the Institution : — To ROBERT LEES, Esq...

FOR some time past the Morning Post has published in its " Personal" adver- tisement ' column what it calls " Peter Piper's Potted Plots," three prizes of one pound each being given, each day for the best potted...

WAS SERIOUSLY ILL At 8.15 p.m. on gist October, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that a woman who was seriously ill on Inishmaan needed immediate medical attention. It was low water with a moderate sea and a fresh easterly...

Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...

At about 12.30 P.M. on the 10th of October, a schooner was seen driving dangerously near the outer end of Teignmouth bar. A strong S.S.W.

gale had been blowing all night, but it had then moderated somewhat; the seas however...

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