LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (14)
APRIL 15TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found and later it was learned that the aeroplane had been taken in tow for Stornoway by a trawler.- Rewards, £4 19s...
Moss Bay (1)
Barrow, Lancashire; and Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th of April, 1953, the YValney Island coastguard rang up the Barrow life-boat station to say that the steam hopper Moss Bay, of Workington, bound...
Coasteering calamity
19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...
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An Aeroplane (61)
AUGUST 14TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 5.30 A.M. news was received from the observer post and the coastguard that a British bomber had come down in the sea between Hythe and Dymchurch. A light westerly wind was blowing, with a...
A Suggestion. To Those In Charge of the Young
CHARACTER never alters, but it may be influenced, instructed and guided, and never so well as in the days of child- hood and early youth. Whilst it is of the utmost importance that the young should be encouraged to be industrious, thrifty...
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Two Rowing Boats
APRIL 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 2.51 in the afternoon a message was received from the Torquay coastguard that a small rowing boat was waterlogged 100 yards S.W. of Orestone and that men were swimming in the water. The boat belonged to the...
The U.S.A. Liberty Ship Abraham Baldwin
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.17 in the morning a message came from the Walmer coastguard that a large steamer was aground on the Goodwin Sands. The lifeboat crew were asked to stand by. This they did all day. At 7.12 in the evening the...
A Voyage of Two Motor Life-Boats
AT the beginning of September the two Motor Life-boats for Montrose and Longhope went to their Stations from the Building Yard at Cowes. Com- mander B. D. Drury, O.B.E., K.D., R.N.R., the Northern District Inspector, •was in command, both...
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None (13)
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At 1.25 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, the police reported that a girl was missing on the island of Eigg. At 1.45 the life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin proceeded in a light north-easterly breeze and a slight sea. It was...
The War Record Year By Year. The 3rd of September, 1939, to the 8th of May, 1945
Year 1939 Launches of Life-boats to ships in distress on account of the War Total launches "f Life-boats Lives Rescued by Life-boats Lives Rescued by Shore-boats r • Medals „ ive% , awarded to *X$ *«...
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