LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Life-Boat Day In Floods
LIFE-BOAT DAY in Chippenham, Wilts., was held on September 16th, and in spite of the fact that the Kiver Avon was ten feet above its normal level, and the centre of the town flooded, the collectors went about their work undismayed and...
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Alpha
On the night of the 4th February the Jane Anne was again called out to the assistance of the galliot Alpha, of Riga, which also stranded to the north of the harbour. A tug-boat went to her, but after making two ineffectual attempts to get...
Life-Boat Day In Greater London
The "Splendid" Poor.
LIFE-BOAT Day was held throughout Greater London on 20th May, except in Baling, where it was held on 27th September. The Day was organized by the Central London Women's Com- mittee of...
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Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling
Three local fishing cobles, Kingfisher, Morning Star and S. B. Colling, went out crabbing on the morning of the 10th February. Shortly afterwards the sea became rough and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched to their help. A...
Peggy
Bridlington,* Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 17th January the motor fishing boat Peggy left Bridlington harbour to fish about eight miles out.
Later a gale sprang up from the S.S.E.
and the sea became...
Ross
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 26th May the motor vessel Ross, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, bound from Glasgow to Liverpool, ran on the rocks on the north side of the Calf of Man. She had a crew of twenty-six, seven passengers,...
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Longhope, Orkneys.—On the morning of the 21st February, a resident of Heckness reported that it was necessary to get his son to Scapa in order that he might be operated upon for appendicitis, but that the conditions were too bad for any...
A Motor Boat
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
Harvester
Wells, Norfolk.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of March, 1956, the life-boat second coxswain received a report that the local motor fishing boat Harvester was overdue with a crew of two. At four o'clock the life- boat Cecil Paine...
Hindlea, of Dublin
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 6.25 in the morning of the 7th of May, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the keepers of the Mull of Galloway Lighthouse had reported a motor vessel, a mile north of the Mull, drifting east - north - eastwards...