LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Information was received through the Portpatrick Coastguard at about 7.30 P.M. on the 5th January, that flares had been seen ofl Pladda Point. The Troon Motor Life-boat Sir David Rich- mond and the Girvan Motor Life'-boat Lily Glen,...
An American Liberator Bombing Aeroplane
OCTOBER 29TH. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
An American Liberator bombing aeroplane had crashed, but she had come down on land. - Rewards, £24 4s..
Bob Walton Says Goodbye - and Thank You - to the Salisbury Shoreline Staff
Bob Walton says goodbye—and thank you—• to the Salisbury Shoreline staff.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch Anglesey
LAUNCH TOWED Appledore, North Devon, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. On the I3th May, 1965, the launch Anglesey, belonging to the Royal Army Service Corps, arrived at Appledore with engine trouble and was moored. However, the moorings were...
Douro
On the 27th March, 1872, the Dutch schooner Douro was seen in distress in St. Austell Bay, during a heavy southerly gale, and in a rough sea. The Rochdale Life-boat soon went to her assistance; and at the request of the master she remained...
William Martin
Dur- ing a strong N.N.W. gale and rough sea on 6th January, signals of distress were observed from a vessel about eight miles south-east of St. TudwalPs Light- house. The Life-boat Margaret Platt of Stalybridge was launched at 4.15...
Kabalo and Flandres
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 7.32 A.M. the Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the Fork Buoy.
A fresh southerly wind was blowing, with amoderate sea. It was snowing. The motor life-boat Charles...
S.S. Nicolaos (1)
Walmer, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At * 8.7 P.M. on the 4th November, 1939, a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that distress signals had been seen about two miles east of their station. A S.W. wind was blowing, with...
Prosper
On the morn- ing of the llth January, the steam trawler Prosper, of Ostend, bound from Ostend to the Orkney fishing grounds, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, increasing later to a whole gale....
Vellum for Fowey Mechanic
THE thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Assistant Mechanic James Turpin of Fowey, Cornwall, who swam a hundred yards through broken water from the Fowey life-boat to the help of a young woman and an auxiliary...
Category: Awards