LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales' Day In London
PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...
Category: Articles
Sea Rigs
MAINSAIL WAS TORN At 8 a.m. on i4th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on St. Agnes had seen a small yacht anchored off the Big Smith Ledges and appearing to be dragging her anchors.
There...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Tuesday, 22nd August, 1933.
Paid £20,466 10s. lid. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the con- struction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee
A Sailing Boat
30th July. A sailing boat was seen endeavouring to land in a gale. She succeeded unaided.
—Rewards, £10 12s..
A Cutter Yacht
Dover, and Hythe, Kent.—18th May, 1938. A cutter yacht had got intodifficulties, but she reached Dover unaided.—Rewards: Dover, Partly permanent paid crew, £5 12s. Gd; Hythe, £18 Os. 6d..
An Aeroplane (29)
AUGUST 16TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. An aeroplane, believed to be German, had crashed during an air-raid on Portsmouth, but only oil was found. - Rewards, £13 12s..
A Rubber Dinghy (1)
JULY 3RD. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. A rubber dinghy with a man aboard had been reported, but was found to be an R.A.F.
target buoy. - Rewards, £5 12s. 3d..
A Fishing Boat (1)
JULY 27TH. - BALLYCOTTON, AND COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was picked up by another fishing boat.- Rewards : Ballycotton, £4 12s. ; Courtmacsherry, £8 5s. 6d..
The S.S. Essex Lance (1)
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...