LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gibralta
At 10 p.m. on 2ist August, 1966, a vessel was seen flashing a light about a quarter of a mile east of Kings Scar. There was a moderate north east by easterly breeze with a choppy sea. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat Ann...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal - At 4 p.m.
on 26th April, 1967, the nurse on Tory Island informed the honorary secretary that an elderly man was seriously ill and needed to be moved to hospital on the mainland for treatment. The...
Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
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Trident
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 8.48 p.m. on 9th May, 1966 it was reported that a flashing light had been seen about four miles south of the harbour.
The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant launched at 8.54 in a moderate...
Daphne
Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...
Open Boats
KINGSTOWN, IRELAND.—At 11.30 P.M.
on the llth December it was reported that some fishermen were in danger on board a wreck on the North Bull Sands. It appeared that a number of open boats were fishing near the spot when a...
Bird of Freedom
About 1.30 P.M.
on the 16th October a fishing boat was observed to be on the Mole Rocks to the eastward of the breakwater ; at the time it was blowing a moderate gale from S.E.
with a rough sea. Without...
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. J. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-Boat Station
THERE has been a Life-boat of the Institution at Teignmouth, in South Devon, for 76 years, and for well over half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who is one of three honorary Life-boat workers of the same name) has been its Honorary Secretary...
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Queen of Hearts
KILDONAN, ISLE OF ARRAN.—On the 11th February, at 10.30 A.M., the Life-boat Hope proceeded, in tow of the tug steamer Flying Sprite, to the assistance of a ship reported on shore on the Sliddery Rock, at the south end of the island. It was...
Lenrodian
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 12.25 in the afternoon of Sunday, the 4th of July, 1948, the coastguard tele- phoned that information had been re- ceived from the pilot cutter Penlee that the motor vessel Lenrodian, of Sheer- ness, was...