LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Carol-Singing
LAST Christmas eleven Branches ar- ranged carol-singing parties, several new Branches trying this form of appeal.
Sussex was again the most successful county, with carol-singers at East Grinstead, Bognor Regis and Cuck-...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the morning of the 2nd of September, 1958, the coastguard at Bolt Head informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat had capsized half a mile south- west of Steeple Cove look-out hut and that two people...
A Sailing Boat
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 11.59 on the night of the 9th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing boat with one man on board, which had last been seen off the west pier earlier that day, had not returned to...
Life-Boat Balloon Race
ON September 6th the Brighton and Hove branch arranged a balloon race, with the help of Messrs. J. Lyons, who supplied the balloons. The race con- tinued all day, and among those who came to see it were the Mayor of Hove, one of the two...
Category: Donations
A Converted Life-Boat
On the 13th of July, 1952, the Barrow life-boat took two exhausted men off a converted life-boat in heavy seas.
—Rewards: the thanks of the Insti- tution inscribed on vellum to Cox- swain Roland Moore; £16 7s. For a...
A Sailing Boat
Buckle, Banffshire.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a small sailing boat was in difficulties three and a quarter miles north-north-west of Buckie. At 3.32 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow...
A Sailing Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At noon on the 23rd of September, 1956, the Dun- dee harbour police reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board was aground on Naughton sand- bank to the west of Tay Bridge. At 12.35 the life-boat Mono,...