LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"There Was No Panic Among the Passengers."
On board the ketch Mystery, of Glasgow, which was towed to safety by the Weston-super-Mare motor life-boat on 9th December, 1937, with a man, his wife and baby on board. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
A Royal Air Force Machine
Montrose, Angus. — 14th October, 1937. A Royal Air Force machine had crashed in Lunan Bay and sunk. One man was lost. The other was rescued by a fishing boat.—Rewards, £9 12*. 6
A Rowing Boat
Swanage, Dorset.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the 16th of June, 1956, thecoastguard telephoned to say that the police had stated that a man had reported seeing a rowing boat with three occupants appear to capsize by the second buoy off...
A Dinghy (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 1.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1959, the police at Torquay told the honorary secretary that a dinghy was in difficulties off Maidencombe beach. Her occu- pants were waving for help, and at 1.55 the life-boat...
Ruth
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 6.10 on the evening of the 13th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a message that a man and his young son had not returned to Paddy's Hole as expected from a fishing trip. At 6.48 the life-boat...
None (1)
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1960, the police told the honorary secretary that a man had fallen into the sea from the cliffs at Brean Down.
As the exact position was not...
A Dinghy (6)
MAN RESCUED FROM DRIFTING DINGHY Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.10 on the morning of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man was adrift in a dinghy off Noup Head and was being blown out to sea. A near...
Wellpark
RADIO MESSAGE Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.35 a.m. on 2 ist December, 1963, the honorary secretary received a message via Valentia Radio that the motor vessel Wellpark, of Glasgow, had a crewman on board suffering from acute appendicitis. The...
A Barge
On the evening of the 4th of October, 1960, the Dunmore East life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 5, Cox- swain Patrick Power was awarded a second clasp to his bronze...
A Rowing Boat (4)
AUG. 19TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. It had been reported that a rowing boat was drifting out to sea with a man on board shouting for help, but the life-boat could find nothing.- Rewards, £11 15s..