LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Fishing Boats (1)
MCH. 24TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. During the morning a heavy sea was rising, with a strong and increasing south-easterly wind. Two small fishing boats were out and shortly before noon it was reported that one of them was showing a...
None (2)
22nd June. A patient who had escaped from the Dorset County Mental Hospital swam out to a rock surrounded by the sea, in order to escape from the nurses, but was swept off by the rising tide and swam ashore again.—Rewards, £4 7s....
An Aeroplane (84)
MAY 15TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A German Junkers 88 aeroplane had come down in the convoy anchorage, but two members of her crew were picked up from their rubber boat by the balloon ship Wengen, and the two others were...
An Aeroplane (149)
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - NEWQUAY, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boats were recalled at the request of the naval officer at Penzance. - Rewards : Newquay, £18 ; St. Ives, £25 1S...
A Vessel (4)
JANUARY 21ST. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. An unknown vessel had been reported ashore, but the life-boat was recalled by the coastguard as the position of the vessel had been wrongly given. - Rewards, £13 5s. 6d..
A Centenarian of Eastbourne. A Link Between 1784 and 1937
By Councillor Alexander Robertson, Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Station.
THERE died in Eastbourne on 16th February, 1937, a lady, Mrs. Caroline Allchorn, who was a hundred years old last year. She was born on 3rd...
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Tarka
Swanage, Dorset. — About seven o'clock on the morning of the 31st of July, 1954, the St. Albans Head coast- guard telephoned that the yacht Tarka was in distress three miles south-south- west of Anvil Point. At 7.14 the life-boat R.L.P....
A Doctor's Advice By Wireless
MR. MOYLE, the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, has sent a very interesting story of help given in an unexpected way by the life-boat's radio-telephony set.
On Sunday, 13th...
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