LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Brinkburn
The S.S. Brinkburn; of London, with twenty- two men on board, whilst bound from Antwerp to Cardiff in ballast on the 24th February, stranded on the Good- win Sands near the S.E. buoy. The weather at the time was threatening, and the Charles...
A Fishing Boat
One of the local fishermen, accompanied by his two sons, went off in his open fishing boat about noon on the 2nd June, in a strong breeze from S.W. to haul his lines, which were about H miles east of Blackhead, co. Antrim. He reached the...
Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Procession
THE Lord Mayor's Procession this year was a pageant of "Transport Through the Ages." It began with an Arab water carrier and ancient Britons, a man and woman travelling on foot. It ended with British Overseas and Euro- pean...
Category: Articles
Major A. J. Dawson
MAJOR A. J. DAWSON, M.B.E., who died at his home in Hastings on the 4th of February last, at the age of seventy-nine, was a most widely travelled man and the author of a great variety of books. He served in the war of 1914 to 1918 although...
Category: Obituaries
Selectivity
Clogher Head, Co. Louth. At 9.40 on the morning of the llth of Novem- ber. 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Selectiv- ity, on passage from Glasgow to Swansea, had a sick man on board.
After...
Theodoron
Blyth, and Amble, Northumberland.
At 2.50 on the morning of the 26th of June, 1958, the coastguard informed the Blyth honorary secretary that a fisher- man had reported that his two sons, who were out in the coble...
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Swanage, Dorset - At 10.20 p.m.
on 10th March, 1968, the coxswain learnt that two people were missing in the Studland to Swanage area. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 10.30 in a gentle west by north breeze with a...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 11.20 p.m. on 7th November, 1965, the assistant honorary secretary received a message from the Smalls lighthouse stating that there was an injured keeper on the lighthouse. After consulting with the...
Craighall
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 11.45 P-m- on J6th September, 1966, the honorary secretary heard the local fishing vessel Craighall, which had a sick man on board, asking Stonehouse radio for medical advice. The doctor at Aberdeen was not...
Polly
Nov. 7TH. - WICKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 8.30 P.M. signals of distress were seen from a fishing skiff about two miles north-east of Wicklow Pier. A moderate S.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. At 8.45 P.M. the motor...