LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Edith
At 2.15 P.M.
on the 29th September, the Prawle Coastguard telephoned that a man had swum ashore for help from a motor-boat which was in difficulties off Prawle Point. A moderate E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea...
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Swanage, Dorset.—At 6 P.M. on the 21st August the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that a man had fallen 150 feet over the cliff near Old Harry Rocks, and was badly injured. Owing to the difficulty of trying to haul him up...
Hull Trader
On the afternoon of the 21st October the -coast- guard reported a canoe with one man on board in distress four miles S.S.E. of the pier. A strong south breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, when the motor life-boat Greater London...
A Boat (1)
Shortly after ; noon on the 3rd August, while a diver was giving a performance fit thy pier- head, the attendant boat was capsized, | throwing her two occupants into the water. There was a moderate N.W.
gale...
Boy Bill
Margate, Kent.—At 12.55 in the after- noon of the 6th of June, 1948, the coast- guard reported that a rowing boat, the Boy Bill, of Westgate, with one man on board, was drifting seawards one and a half miles to the north-west, and the motor...
The S.S. Moorwood
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 10.45 on the morning of the 28th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the S.S.
Moorwood, of London, had asked if the...
The Tongue Lightvessel
Margate, Kent. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 21st of November, 1958, a request was received from the Chief Superinten- dent, Trinity House, for the life-boat to land a sick lamplighter from the Tongue lightvessel. The life-boat North...
The Admiralty Dredger St. Giles
Scarborough, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the llth of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Ad- miralty dredger St. Giles was bound for Scarborough with a seriously injured man on board...
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Swanage, Dorset. At 6.10 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported a man in difficulties on the cliffs at Ballard Down. A cliff rescue team had been sent to the...