On the 10th May the fishing-boats were again in much danger, in consequence of having been overtaken by stormy weather.
The Life-boat put off to help them, and remained by them until they had entered the harbour. One boat,...
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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Books The Lone Ranger story – from salvage tug to super yacht by John Julian Published by Seafarer Books ISBN 0955024307 Price £19.95 hardback This is the remarkable story of a vessel’s transformation over a period of more than 30 years...
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JANUARY 17TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 2.45 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported two American landing craft ashore on Thurleston Rock. A southsouth- east wind was blowing, with a moderately rough sea. The motor...
At about 6 A.M.
on the 19th March, during a moderate N.E. gale, a telephone message was received reporting that a dismasted schooner was in distress off Trevose Head. The No. 2 Life-boat Edmund Harvey, in tow of the tug...
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
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Fowey, Cornwall. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 13th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys were trapped on the rocks at Portnodler Bay near Looe. At 9.37, when the life-boat Deneys Reitz...
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
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Lowestoft, Suffolk. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd July, 1961, the coastguard learnt that a dinghy had capsized about a mile off shore at Gorton and that her crew were clinging to her. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing...
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1954.
the St. Anthony coastguard reported that what appeared to be an upturned boat had been seen half a mile off Hemmick Beach, to the west of Dod- man. At...