LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Falavee
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—Early on the morning of the 1st February, 1938, a fisherman reported distress flares from a vessel ashore on Dhorling sandbank, Davaar Island. She was the coasting steamer Falavee, of Belfast, bound with a cargo of...
Pamela
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 26th of June, 1949, the auxiliary ketch Pamela, bound for Oban with seven persons, ran aground in Glenehervie Bay in a dense fog. The owner went ashore, and at 3.30 in the afternoon telephoned for the...
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In gully INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED from HM Coastguard by St Ives ILB station at 1531 on Thursday, July 28, that there were people cut off by the tide on the north side of Carbis Bay Beach. The assembly signal was made immediately and the ILB...
Majestic of Dundee
On the 26th Oc- tober, 1859, the schooner Majestic, of Dun- dee, ran for the harbour of Benvick-on- Tweed, it blowing a heavy gale at that time from the N.E. She succeeded in crossing the bar, but drove ashore on Spittal Point. The life-boat...
The S.S. South Coaster
DECEMBER 2lST. - EXMOUTH, DEVON.
At 8.15 in the morning of the 13th of December, the S.S. South Coaster, of Cardiff, ran aground on the eastern end of Pole Sands, west-by-south three-quarters of a mile from Orcombe Point....
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
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Feature Building Into the Millennium
Building into the millennium Shoreworks manager Howard Richings moves on to western Scotland, travelling from Kippford to Barra IslandHaving boldly gone from Berwick, on the north-east corner of England, we now cross the Final Frontier and...
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The kapok enquiry
Kapok offers great advantages over cork as regards weight, buoyancy, the ease with which it can be adjusted to any shape, and the protection which it affords against cold. Kapok is a vegetable fibre found chiefly in the East Indies, the best...
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The S.S. Second
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 28th of October, 1952, the life-boat Thomas Corbett was launched on exercise in a heavy sea, with a south-westerly gale blow- ing. At two o'clock the coastguard signalled...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 2.30 early on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1954, the Fire Brigade reported that firemen at Rosemullion Head were hauling two men up a cliff. The men had been in a fourteen-feet dinghy with another man, but the...