LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
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The S.S. Fairway
HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 10th October a heavy gale from the N.N.E. was experienced. The coxswain of the Hartlepool No. 3 Life-boat, the John Clay Barlow, was at the pilots' watch house at about seven o'clock, when it was...
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Coastal Spring
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A watchful eye
Station volunteers foresaw disaster when seven adventurous children met the elements
Midday on 26 May was cold and blustery and Clogher Head Lifeboat Operations Manager Declan Levins was at the...
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Dido
At 9.16 P.M. on the 9th October the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat was in difficulties in Yarmouth Roads, about three-quarters of a mile S.E. from Britannia Pier. A moderate and increasing S. gale was blowing, with a...
Tadpole
Walmer, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorarysecretary a report that a sailing yacht with a number of people on board was aground on the rocks near the Royal Marines rifle range...
Life-Boats As Ambulances
AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the...
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Ivylea
Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a man at East Burrafirth saw that a fishing boat had broken down in the Rona and asked the driver of a car to tell the life-boat station. The motorist de- livered the message at 9...
Floran
Girvan, Ayrshire. — At 8.20 on the evening of the llth of September, 1952, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Turnberry lighthouse-keeper had reported that an auxiliary yacht had stopped, but was using a small sail between...
Various Vessels
JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...