LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sand Runner
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At 7.40 in the morning on the 31st of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a tanker had been reported aground at Porth- meaor beach. At 8.3 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched, in a slight...
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Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.35, on the evening of the 24th of July, 1950, the palice reported that a boy had fallen over the 400 feet cliffs at Maug- hold Head. He was so seriously injured that he could not be carried up the cliff. The...
Mrs. Talbot-Cadow, of Carlisle
MRS. W. TALBOT-CADOW, of Carlisle, died on the llth of February. She had been an active and successful honorary worker for the Life-boat Service for twenty-eight years. It was in 1923 that she became president of the Car- lisle and district...
Category: Obituaries
Francine
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.25 in the evening of the 28th of December, 1951, the master of the motor vessel Fran- cine, of Antwerp, who had come ashore to get stores, reported that the Francine was drifting ashore a hundred yards off Weymouth...
A Salmon Fishing Boat
Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 10th February the Civic Guard reported that a local salmon fishing boat, with four men on board, was in difficulties. A whole E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather was very...
Soudan
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...
Antilope
ON THE MANACLE ROCKS Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 10th of March, 1947, a message came that the motor vessel Antilope, of Groningen, had struck the Manacle Rocks. A fresh southerly breeze was blowing, the sea was rough,...
Legacies
LEGACIES play a great part in main- taining the Life-boat Service. All who wish to help in this way can include the following clause in their wills: / give and bequeath to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Preservation of Life...
Category: Donations
Greylass
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1952, the life-boat coxswain asked local people to keep a look-out for the fishing vessel Greylass, of Hoylake, which was overdue with a crew of three. Nothing...