LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received the Annual Report 01 the operations of the United States Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1890, issued from the Govern- ment Printing Office at Washington in 1892, the Service being a branch of the...
Category: Articles
Devotion
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 9.45 on the morning of the 14th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local fishing boat was anchored about a mile and a half north of Berwick with her engine...
From America.
America too, is helping the British Life-boat Service. A lady in California, who had been "thrilled indeed to read of the heroic deeds of those saving lives around dear old England" sent £49. 9. A gift of £6. 13 has come...
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Bonnie Lass
On the 30th September, the schooner Bonnie Lass, of Wick, struck on the rocks off' Saltburn, during foggy weather. The life-boat at the latter place went off through a heavy sea and brought ashore the mate of the vessel, with the view to...
Regalia (1)
The Life- boat Civil Service No. 6 was launched at 10.20 A.M. on the 25th February to the assistance of three fishing-boats belonging to Douglas, which were caught by a whole N.W. to N.N.W. gale, which suddenly sprang up. Fortunately the...
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Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two children were stranded on Sully Island by the rising tide. At 10.10 the life-boat Rachel and Mary...
Ramlah, Royal Empire, Sarah, Guide Me and Margaret
APRIL 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 7.30 A.M. anxiety was being felt for the safety of some of the fishing cobles, as a very strong N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As both life-boat coxswains, and a number of the...
George Crabbe's Borough By A. W. Hawkes
THE Suffolk Aldeburgh ('Aldeburc' of Domesday) —to which we must add 'on sea' to distinguish it from other Aldeburghs, of slightly different spellings, in Norfolk and Essex—lies right on the coast of the North Sea, four miles...
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None (1)
Slip sparks searchA summer holiday in Cornwall turned int by Fox Cove, near Newquay, on 9 August 2( unconscious into the water when a couple from Essex. They were walking le man slipped on rocks and was knockedInstinctively, the woman jumped...
A Small Boat (6)
16th September.
Searched for a small boat reported to be missing, but it had landed further along the coast.—-Rewards, £25 Is..