LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (90)
JUNE 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.25 A.M. the coastguard reported that a British bomber was believed to be down several miles to the eastward, and the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
Otto
POOLE, DORSETSHIRE.—On the 1st Junethe brigantine Otto, of Hoganas, Sweden, from Gene to Poole with a cargo of timber, was taken in tow by a steam-tug about 9 A.M., and while crossing Poole Bar the wind blowing from the E., accompanied by a...
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 9.28 on the morning of the 26th of April, 1957, a telephone message was received from a man who lives on Herm Island asking if a doctor could be sent to the island as his wife was seriously ill. There was a fresh...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Angus, of Howth, Co. Dublin.
Appointed in January, 1900, he has been coxswain for nearly thirty-four years..
Category: Articles
Camper & Nicholsons Ltd
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 20th of August, 1955, the Lade coastguard rang up to say that the Rye police had reported that a boy swimming off Camber was drifting out to sea. At 5.15 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
The Norwegian Fishing Vessel Jenco II
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 12.35 early on the morning of the 8th of August, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the Norwegian fishing vessel Jenco II. was adrift near the Shipwash Sands | with the skipper apparently intoxi- cated. ...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a boy was trapped in a cave at Point Giltar. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and a heavy...
Mars (1)
DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.