LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Great Gale of February, 1871
Memorial Service at Bridlington.
THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.
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Anstruther, Fifeshire. —• During the morning of the 19th December, 1938, it was learned that the boatman who took stores to May Island had been unable, owing to bad weather, to make the trip for five days, and that the twenty-eight people on...
Rudderman
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a...
Brecon Castle
Valentia, Co. Kerry.^At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of May, 1954, the steam trawler Brecon Castle, of Swansea, arrived at Valentia with a sick man. A doctor examined him and decided to have him taken ashore, but the weather...
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.24 on the night of the 23rd of March, 1957, a telephone message was received that a man had left the harbour in an open 12-feet sailing dinghy bound for Porte- let Bay at noon but had been seen twice during...
Donna and Pandora
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—At 4.46 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, it was learnt that the yacht Donna had capsized in the bay off Monks- house. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at 4.55 in a moderate sea. There was a...
The American Oil-Tanker S.S. El Morro
10,000-TON STEAMER AGROUND Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 1.15 in the afternoon of the 14th of September, 1947, a vessel was reported apparently ashore on Sheringham Shoal, about six miles south-east of the town. She was kept under observation,...
The S.S. Saxton
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 8.30 on the night of the 6th of December, 1948, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Saxton, of Middlesbrough, was aground outside the harbour entrance with her engines broken down, and the motor...
Cogswell & Harrison Ltd
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Category: Advertisement
Letter
• I was interested in the note 'What is a covenant?' on page 687 of THE LIFE- BOAT for September, 1969. It implies that unless the payer suffers tax at the full rate the covenant is not applicable, whereas as I understand the...
Category: Correspondence