LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A Naval Vessel
JANUARY 8TH. - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.
During the evening a request was received at the pier for a doctor to be sent to a naval vessel in the Bristol Channel. As no other suitable boat was available the motor lifeboat Rosabella...
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MARCH 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. A man was seriously injured in a bad accident on the island of Kilronan, and it was necessary to take him to hospital on the mainland.
All the local boats were out fishing. So at 1.30 P.M., the...
An Aeroplane (145)
OCTOBER 29TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
During an air battle the coxswain saw a British aeroplane crash several miles W. by S. from Selsey Bill, and at 3 P.M. launched the motor life-boat Canadian Pacific. A moderate S.E. breeze...
Clipper aground
The 100-year-old Dutch clipper De Tukker ran aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Amble Harbour, after a tide miscalculation. Amble’s D class Mildred Holcroft crew passed a tow rope from the...
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Nordale
NOVEMBER 23RD. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 10.40 in the morning the Walney coastguard telephoned that a steam trawler was aground about one and a half miles W.S.W. of the coastguard station, and at 10.50 A.M. the motor life-boat N.T. was...
St. Clears
JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...
Henry Harvey
On the 25th March the Life-boat was launched at 8.40 P.M., and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Henry Harvey, of Hayle, bound from Runcorn for Lelant with coal, which while endeavouring to make the harbour at Penzance in a...
Iris
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February the fishing-vessel Iris of Lowestoft, carry- ing a crew of three hands, stranded in Pegwell Bay. Information that the vessel was in danger reached Ramsgate at 11.45 A.M., and the Life-boat in...