LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Open Boat
Walmer, Kent.—At 1 P.M. on the 29th July, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
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TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At 9.20 on the morning of the 13th Septem- ber, 1961, the inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that a man working on Tuskar Rock wanted to be brought to the mainland as his father was...
A Difficult Tow In a South-East Gale
ON the 20th of January, 1954, the fishing yawl Poseidon, of Rothesay, left North Shields to fish off Eyemouth.
Early on the morning of the 22nd of January the crew of four found they could not start the engines. They were...
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Books for Review
Laurence Gilding is to be warmly congratulated on successfully carrying out the tasks he set himself in his new work The Book of Sea Rescue (Frederick Warne, los. 6d.).
He describes the work of ±e life-boat service, of...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1877
Jan.3.—Three men of Budleigh Salterton,Devon- shire, saved 2 Coastguardmen, whose boat, while they were crossing the river Otter on duty, had been carried down the river by the current and wrecked against the rocks at Otter Point, during a...
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Bohemian Girl and Prefect
Stromness, Orkney.—At 11.80 P.M. On the 2nd July the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the Wick wireless station had received news of a trawler ashore on North Ronaldshay. There was a thick fog at the time, with a moderate S.E. wind and...
South African (1)
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
Work Out What Injuries They Have.
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Denis Beeson Heft) and Margaret Bullen of Hunstanton and West Norfolk Branch
Denis Beeson Heft) and Margaret Bullen of Hunstanton and West Norfolk branch accept a cheque for £1,900 from Steve Chapman of Diglea Caravan Park in August 2001. The money was raised from the caravan park's fifth annual fun day,... - View image in PDF
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