On the evening of the 4th May the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was in difficulties some distance S.E. of Shanklin pier. The life-boat did not go out, as a motor boat was standing by the yacht. Later the yacht sailed in...
On the afternoon of the 21st May the motor boat May Belle got into difficulties oft Littlestone.
Her engine had broken down, and she began to drift. She was making her first trip with her owner and five other men on board....
THE Institution recently advertised for sale the motor life-boat at Maryport which has now been replaced by a new motor life-boat. One prospective pur- chaser rang up to say that he would like the boat but had not the money to pay for her....
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Hastings, Sussex.—25th September, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported down in the channel between Hastings and Le Treport. No position was given. The life-boat and two aeroplanes searched for some time. In the meanwhile the distress call...
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 7.40 A.M. on the llth January the police reported a wreck under Tregiffian cliffs. A strong S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat W. and S.
was...
THE Institution has lost by death a number of its workers and friends since the last issue of The Life-boat was published. Notices of their work for the Institution will appear in the next number..
Category: Obituaries
The rescue. The two men of the smack can be seen in the rigging. - View image in PDF
Photographs reproduced ty courtesy of H. Jenkins, Lowestoft, (For a full account of the service see page 491.). - View image in PDF
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Ramsey, Isle of Man;—At 5.17 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship seemed to be on fire six miles east- north-east of Queens Pier. Later on, he reported that she was a drifter and had been taken in...
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, founder of the Life-boat Stamp Bureau, will be very glad of gifts of colonial and foreign stamps from readers of The Life-boat and their friends. All the proceeds of the Stamp...
Category: Donations
Barmouth, Merionethshire. •—• About half-past ten in the morning of the 29th.
of July, 1949, information was received from the R.A.F. at Valley, Anglesey, and from the Fishguard coastguard that an aeroplane had come down in...