LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MEN ON THE ROCKS Torbay, Devon. At 4.19 p.m. on i6th January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two men were in the sea off Durl Head. There was a strong east-north-easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was flooding....
A Small Boat
Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...
Libertas,of Genoa
The same life-boat also went off on Sunday, the 31st of January, to the assist- ance of the barque Liebertas, of Genoa, which was bringing up in the roadstead during very heavy squalls from the S.W., when her cables parted, and she went on...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (3)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
Grace Darling
WHO has not heard of GRACE DARLING, the heroine of the Longstone Lighthouse? whose name, associated with the wreck of the Forfarshire steamer, will long be remembered amongst the annals of those who, although holding humble stations in life,...
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Royal Ulsterman
IRISH AND GREEK SHIPS ASHORE IN A BLIZZARD Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 7.20 in the morning of February 26th, 1947, the Southend coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Royal Ulsterman, of Belfast, was aground on Arran. She was on her...
Caroline
EASTBOUBNE.—On the 3rd August, while a gale was blowing from S., accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, the schooner Caroline, of London, bound from Qoole for Portland with a cargo of coal, parted her cable and drifted towards the shore,...
Nelly
Shortly after the Mark Lane Life-boat had brought the crew of the schooner Nancy ashore, the watchman reported that the St.
Nicholas Light vessel was firing distress signals, and about the same time a vessel was observed...
Spontaneity
Whltby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the night of the 16th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say the motor vessel Spontaneity, on passage to Yarmouth, had reported that one of her crew was sick. She was ex- pected to arrive off Whitby in...
Karel
DUTCH CREW AIDED At 8.35 p.m. on 5th December, 1964, Valentia radio station told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Karel had grounded on Mutton Island, near Galway docks. The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson left her moorings...