LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Rafts
JANUARY 14TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY.
At noon the lightkeeper on Little Samphire reported a ship’s raft floating three miles to the N.N.W., and a second raft farther north. A strong N.W. wind was blowing with a heavy breaking...
The Ex-Belgian Defence Vessel Andre Marcel and Plover
OCTOBER 18TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. About 12.20 in the early morning information was received from the naval control at the pier-head that a barrageballoon- drifter and a barge had been driven ashore on the West Shoebury Sands. A S.W...
Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Iv—Skeleton Hull
DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS, the work of building up the skeleton hull of the lifeboat (Fig, 1), swiftly sketched out in Part III of this article, has been progressing at William Osbornes with meticulous care. Each of the very many pieces...
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An Aeroplane (5)
JANUARY 6TH. - PORTRUSH, CO ANTRIM. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea thirteen miles N.N.E. of Ramore Head, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
Popsy
Plymouth, South Devon. At 7.30 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the police at Plympton reported that a man at Wembury Point had seen a small yacht capsize off Gara Point. At 7.47 the life-boat Lloyds, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in...
The S.S. Punta
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.—At 6.45 on the morning of the 22nd of July, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground on a reef near the Seven Stones lightship. At 7.10 the life-boat Cunard was...
An Aeroplane (54)
JULY 26TH. - CROMER. NORFOLK. An aeroplane had crashed on the Outer Bank, but the life-boat found that she had been smashed and there was nothing to be done.
- Rewards, £13 4s.
(See Haisborough, “...
Paul Rykens
Aberdeen.—At 9.27 P.M. on the 15th April the Gregness coastguard telephoned that a vessel was in distress off Berryhill. A later message said that she was about a mile N.E. of the Bridge of Don, apparently aground, and was firing rockets. A...
Saved from Diphtheria
Three children were dangerously ill with diphtheria on an island off the west coast of Ireland. The proper drugs were not to be got on the island and the children would have been dead in a few hours. The Arranmore life-boat took the doctor...
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