LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Berwick-on-Twe«d, Northumberland.— At 10.12 on the night of the llth of July, 1948, the coastguard reported red verey lights being fired from a yacht off Bummouth, and the motor life-boat J. and W. was launched at 10.26 in a light...

NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...

Early on the morn- ing of the following day, the large Life- boat on the adjoining station of Yarmouth, named the Mark Lane, was called out by signals of distress shown from the brig Marie, of Colchester, which was in a sink-ing state in...

The Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched, on 22nd July, in response to distress signals from the Gull Light-vessel and found the cutter yacht Eileen, of Brightlingsea, stranded on the North Goodwin Sands.

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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...

WHEX the programme for the Royal Life-boat Matinee, at the Lyceum, on the llth December, was being arranged Mr. Louis N. Parker, the author of many plays, and the organiser of some of the most successful historical pageants, was asked if he...

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Appledore, North Devon December 5.

Arklow, Co. Wicklow January 19 and February 25.

Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 14, 17 and 21.

Ballycotton, Co. Cork December 4, 5, January 6 and...