LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Directions for Restoring the Apparently Drowned
THE leading principles of the following Directions for the Restoration of the apparently Dead from Drowning are founded on those of the late DR. MARSHALL HALL, combined with those of DR. H. R. SILVESTER, and are the result of extensive...
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1957, the coxswain was told by telephone that a girl bather was being carried out to sea on the ebb tide at the estuary of the Red Wharf Bay River. Fifteen minutes later the...
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Galway Bay.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of January, 1956, the local doctor asked if the life- boat would take to the mainland a man who had been seriously injured and needed hospital treatment. As there was no other...
Life-Boat Carol Singers
LAST Christmas a choir of twelve got together by the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at East Grinstead, in Sussex, went carol singing for the Lifeboats.
They wore oilskins and souwesters lent them by the Institution, and...
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Eclipse
FBASEBBUKGH.—At 8.30 A.M. on the 25th of October the schooner Eclipse, of Dundee, bound from Suaderland to Little Ferry with coal, showed signals of distress while riding in the bay. The Cosmo and Charles Life-boat proceeded to her...
Covesea and Ocean Swell (1)
Whitehills, Banfisbire, and Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—About 3.45 in the after- noon of the 18th of October, 1949, theBanff coastguard telephoned the White- hills life-boat station that two fishing vessels bound for Peterhead from Wick —the...
A Trawler
14th April. A trawler stranded at Sanday, but her crew managed to get ashore in the ship's boat. The life-boat was away for fifteen hours in bad weather and covered about one hundred and twenty miles. Additional rewards were granted for...
A Naval Motor Boat
DECEMBER 16TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
A naval motor boat had foundered while going ashore from minesweeper H.M.S. Tenby in a gale, but the life-boat, which made a long search, found nothing. Of the eight men in the boat, seven...
To the Help of Two Rafts
Coxswain J. McLeod, of Thurso, Caithness-shire has won the bronze medal for gallantry in rescuing two exhausted men from a ship's raft when it was within two hundred yards of the rocks in a heavy sea. The life-boat then went to another...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—At 3'40 A.M. on the 2nd April, the barque Cedarine, of Bermuda, stranded near Brighstone Grange, with 234 persons on board, 191 of whom were convicts, whose period of punishment at...
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