EXMOUTH.—At noon on the 13th December a mounted messenger came from Budleigh Salterton and reported a fishing boat in great danger about three miles east of Exmouth. The Victoria Life-boat was speedily launched, and proceeded to the boat,...
On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after- noon their mast carried...
On the 22nd March a small boat left the main- land for Ramsey Island with two men, a pig and a lamb on board. The boat got into difficulties when about half- way across Ramsey Sound, and, drift- ing with the tide, began to bump along the...
Barra Island, Hebrides.—16th November.
Two keepers had put out from Monach Island lighthouse, forty-five miles from Barra, in a small boat on the previous day, and all trace of them had been lost. An unsuccessful search was...
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—7th January, 1939. A small boat was swamped. One of her crew of two got ashore unaided. The other could not be found.—Rewards, £11 14s..
Holybead, Anglesey.—22nd May. A small boat had been lost sight of during a squall. She had got ashore in a small cove.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 18th of March, 1951, the weather got worse, and there was anxiety for the safety of the local keel boat Courage, at sea with a crew of five.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the...
A YACHTSMAN who bought and con- verted one of the Institution's 35-feet 6-inch life-boats writes of her to the Yachting Monthly.
"Sailing performance is far beyond my expectations. With plate down she never...
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Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, founder of the Life-boat Stamp Bureau, will be very glad of gifts of colonial and foreign stamps from readers of The Life-boat and their friends. All the proceeds of the Stamp...
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