LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money (Continued from Page 135)
(continued from page 135) service. During the past year £1,300 has been raised in Coventry, and the guild has planted a plane tree on one of the city's lovely greens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the...
Category: Donations
Two Tractor Launches: Donna Nook and Bridlington
At 7.45 on the morning of 11th February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was, called out to the help of the steam ' trawler Dinorah, which was in distress off Haile Flat. The Boat was success- fully...
Category: Services
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...
None (1)
An icy plunge When Portsmouth's volunteers heard that a man was trapped in icy waters below a pier, they knew they were in a race against timePolice officers had been called to Portsmouth's South Marine Parade Pier on the evening of...
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Sailing Dinghies (1)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 3.50 on the afternoon of the 20th August,1961, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that at least ten sailing dinghies of the Shoreham yacht club had capsized during a local regatta. At four o'clock the...
Success, Provider A and Pilot Me II
Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Iron Crown
TYNEMOUTH.—On the 20th October the barque Iron Crown, of Liverpool, while entering Tynemouth about midnight, in a tremendous gale from E.S.E. to E. and a very high sea, became unmanageable near the pier ends, and, after narrowly escaping...
Deo Gratias and Motor Boat Bella Betty
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.35 on the morning of the 12th of October, 1952, a resident of Overton telephoned that a fishing boat had fired two red rockets and that her crew ap- peared to be trying to hold her on to Port Eynon Buoy. At...
Calypso
Hastings, Sussex.—At 10.36 on the morning of the 7th of August, 1951, the Fairlight coastguard telephoned that a yacht was making distress signals a quarter of a mile off Castle Rocks. At 10.55 the life-boat M.T.C.
was...