LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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Onslow, of London, carrying crew of twenty-six hands, stranded at Kettle- ness Point during a dense fog on 12th August. She was loaded with coal at the time. Information of the accident reached Bunswick at 8 A.M....

COASTER ON ROCKS At 7.32 p.m. on the i6th February, 1965 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Glencoy had gone ashore and needed assistance. The life-boat R.A. Colby Cubbon No. 3 was launched at 8.5 in a light...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1955, a man who had just come in from sea in his fishing boat told the life-boat coxswain that he had seen a yacht aground near the West Gunfleet buoy, but that he had been...

Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...

Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At 5.40 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1957, the Irish Lights Office asked if the lifeboat could launch to land the master of the Arklow lightvessel, whose wife was dangerously ill. The life-boat Inbhear Mor was...

Birthday and New Year's Honours QBE Horace Kemball Greaves, secretary, Manchester Savings Committee. After the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat in 1947 Mr Greaves, then town treasurer of Swansea and honorary secretary of the Swansea branch,...

THE twenty-seventh Annual Life-boat Matinee, organized by Mr. Francis Laid- ler, took place on 10th November last.

The programme included some twenty " turns," among those who took part being the principal...

Workington 's relief Mersey Lifetime Care manoeuvres up to the stranded Capella ready to attach a tow.. - View image in PDF