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Mary Kate
AUGUST 12TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 6.5 in the evening the coast life-saving service man at Curracloe telephoned that a fishing boat was flying a signal south of Blackwater Head. A fresh south-westerly wind was blowing, with a...
A Small War Department Motor Launch Cypress
NOVEMBER 6TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON.
At 4.56 in the afternoon the Hope Cove coastguard reported that a small War Department motor launch, with a crew of three, had broken down and was making distress signals east of Start Point...
The Converted Ship’s Life-Boat Harriett
JULY 18TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
About eleven in the morning the coastguard reported a sailing boat flying a distress signal two miles south-south-west of Clacton pier. A strong south-westerly breeze was blowing and...
Italo-Balbo
MARCH 27TH. - WALMER, KENT. The Deal coastguard reported that a collision had occurred near the south-west Goodwin Buoy.
A fresh northerly breeze was blowing with a very heavy swell. At 4.50 A.M. the motor life-boat Charles...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Henry Albert (Buller) Griggs, of Hythe, Kent. He was second cox- swain for two and a half years, and for over nineteen years has been coxswain; so that he has been an officer of the life-boat for...
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Enchanter
RAMSGATE, BROADSTAIRS, WALMER, and KINGSDOWNE.—These Life-boats, which are so frequently called out to assist the crews of vessels wrecked on the* fatal Goodwin Sands, were instrumental last year in performing the following services to...
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
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Thanet
On the even- ing of the 15th December the steam trawler Thanet, of Hull, was seen to run aground on the Inner Binks sands.
She carried a crew of nine, and was returning home from the fishing grounds. The motor life-boat...
The S.S. Grace Hill
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.44 on the morning of the 29th of December, 1953, the Bangor coastguard tele- phoned that a vessel had run on the rocks at Mew Island. At 11.55 the life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly put to sea.
There was...
Virgin
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 28th of March, 1956, the Southend coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Virgin, of Castlebay, which had a crew of five, had run ashore on the eastern side of Barra Island....