LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Harriet
BLACKPOOL.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 13th April, while the wind was blowing strongly from the N.N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the fishing-smack Harriet, of Marshside, was observed in difficulties off...
Freda, Star of Hope and Radiant Morn
The Staithes fishing fleet put out at 5 a.M. on the 20th December in moderate weather.
Later the wind got .up, and by 10.30 A.M. a moderate and increasing N.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
Courageous
Donaghadee, Co. Down.--At 7 P.M.
on the 24th October it was reported to the life-boat authorities tha t the motor boat Courageous, with eleven people on board,, who had gone to the Old Lighthouse Island to shoot rabbits,...
Akeco
On the 27th of September, 1951, the Dover life-boat rescued one man from a Dutch yacht. For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 283..
Coxswain Henry Blogg and "Monte."
THE photograph on page 132 shows Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, with a dog which he rescued from the Italian steamer Monte Nevoso on 16th October of last year. Coxswain Blogg received the Institution's silver medal for this service, in...
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Tranquillity
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 12th of March, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the fishing boat Tranquillity, of Peter- head, had broken down near the More- cambe Bay lightvessel. At 7.18 the coastguard...
Miranda
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 on the evening of the 19th of May, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat had broken down four miles east of Onchan Head. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Millie Walton was...
Lady Cable
Torbay, Devon.—At 6.24 on the even- ing of the 24th of September, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor boat had burnt a smoke flare half a mile north-east of Berry Head.
At 6.40 the life-boat George Shee put...
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
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Penlee, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. Early in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the St. Ives life-boat was out.
At 5 A.M. it was reported that signals had been seen off Clodgy Head.
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