LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me
FISHING COBLE AT SEA At 11.15 a-m- on 3otn October, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Pilot Me was at sea in very bad weather, and the coxswain thought that she would have difficulty in returning...
The S.S. Pass of Glenogle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 28th of October, 1954, the coxswain overheard a message from the Humber radio station to the port doctor stating that the S.S. Pass of Glenogle, of London, needed a doctor to attend her captain....
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Dungeness, Kent - At 6.25 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three skin divers were missing in the Varne bank area about eight miles east of Dungeness.
The life-boat Mabel E....
A Dinghy (10)
Wick, Caithness-shire - At 9.50 p.m.
on 24th July, 1967, it was learnt that an explosion and flares had been seen eight miles east of Brora. The life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at 10.10 in a moderate south westerly...
Melody
JULY 27TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. On the occasion of the Babbacombe Regatta it was thought wise that the life-boat should patrol the course as a westerly breeze was blowing, causing a choppy sea, and it was bad weather for dinghy racing. The motor...
The Rye Life-Boat Disaster
The Mayor of Rye's Fund; Mcmcrials to the Seventeen Life-boatmen.
ON 22nd June a meeting was held between the Attorney-General (Sir William* Jowitt, E.G.) and the Trustees of the Fund which the Mayor of Rye raised for...
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JANUARY 4TH. - AITH, SHETLANDS.
On the 2nd January, Dr. Cruickshank, of Walls, telephoned that the Queen’s District Nurse on Foula Island was dangerously ill and would have to be taken to the...
Two Small Sailing Yachts
ESCORTING YACHTS IN A FOG Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 11.80 on the night of the 24th of July, 1947, it was reported that two small sailing yachts from Howth were lost in fog, and the motor life-boat R.P.L. was launched at 11.45. There was no wind...
Collecting In Gas Masks.
The flag day at Wigan was held on a day when there was a gas exercise, and at Bristol when there was a mock invasion. Collectors and contributors were all wearing their gas masks. It made no difference. Wigan collected £324, a record...
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A Vessel
Fowey, Cornwall - At 10.5 a.m. on 9th April, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was submerged with about two foot of mast showing above the water, a quarter of a mile west of Polperro. The life-boat Cecil and...