LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harnser
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 1.3 on the afternoon of the 5th of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a small fishing boat was in difficulties off Hopton Bank. At 1.10 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the...
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MARCH 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 5.50 P.M. information was received from the Cromer coastguard that what appeared to be a small white boat could be seen some six miles N.N.E. 1/2 E. Half an hour later the naval authorities...
An Aeroplane (168)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL. At 12.50 P.M. the police telephoned that a German aeroplane had been shot down three miles S.W. of The Lizard.
A westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat...
Jens S.
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire - At 2.42 a.m. on 3ist July, 1967, it was learnt that a vessel had fired red flares two and a hah0 miles south east of the Scarweather lightvessel. At 3 o'clock the lifeboat William Gammon - Manchester and...
Tania of Rochester
Wicklow - At 8.25 a.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in distress 15 miles southeast of Wicklow. A rope had fouled her propeller. The life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 8.40 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough...
Coxswain Robert Cross: A Correction
IN the last issue of The Life-boat it was said that Coxswain Robert Cross of the life-boat station on the Humber, whose 'portrait appeared on the cover, had joined the crew in 1906, when the station was under the control of the Humber...
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Ireland Community News
Bundoran
Sun shines on named after. soapbox race
Bundoran’s seventh annual soapbox race took place in June, with crowds turning out to marvel at people’s engineering triumphs – and chuckle at their...
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A Small Boat
Information was received at mid-day on the 4th January that a small boat, in which two youths had gone fishing at 4 A.M., was overdue, and the Coast- guard at Marsden reported that a small boat about three miles to the...
Equerry
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 30th of December, 1956, the harbour master reported that the trawler Equerry, of Grimsby, which was in Peterhead Bay on her way to the fishing grounds, had an injured man on board....
Althea
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 8.35 on the evening of the 20th of July, 1954, the Needles coastguard telephoned that a vessel needed help off South West Shingles Buoy. At 8.44 the life-boat The Lord Southborough, Civil Service No. 1, on...