LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spray
NOVEMBER 24TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The Whitby fishing boats had gone out about 9 in the morning, and a strong S.W. wind had got up, bringing a rough sea. By three in the afternoon all had returned to harbour except the coble...
Penhale and Jan
NOVEMBER 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY. At 2.5 A.M. a steamer east of Salt Island was heard blowing on her siren, and a flare was seen, and at 2.55 A.M. the French motor life-boat Jean Charcot, on temporary duty at this station, was...
Boathouses in fact and fiction:
Daphne du Maurier
• Her father bought a boathouse at Bodinnick, Cornwall, to convert intoa holiday cottage.
• She wrote sections of Frenchman’s Creek in a Coastguard hut above Lantic Bay.<...
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A Vessel (20)
JUNE 7TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.28 P.M. a message was received at the life-boathouse from the Royal Engineers Signals at Princes Golf Club, that a vessel near there was showing flares, and at 10.45 P.M. another message came from the...
An Aeroplane (1)
CRASHED AEROPLANE Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset.—At 11.20 in the morning of the 17th of September, 1947, the Swanage coast- guard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea off Bournemouth, and the motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright...
Brighter Dawn, Cathleen and Golden Gleam
Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 9.3 on the morning of the 9th of September, 1954, a man at Alnmouth reported that the fishing cobles Brighter Dawn, Cath- leen, and Golden Gleam, of Boulmer, appeared to be in difficulties in Aln- mouth Bay. At...
Speed Boats (1)
OCT. 18TH. - EXMOUTH, AND TORBAY, DEVON. A message was received at 7.25 P.M. from the R.A.F. that two of their speedboats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head, and the motor lifeboat was launched with the help of soldiers.
Algorma
Humber, Yorkshire, — At 6.20 A.M.
on the 23rd February it was learned from the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station that the trawler Algorma, of Grimsby, was ashore nine miles north of Spurn, and in need of...
New Ways of Raising Money
The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...
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Gretafield (1)
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....