LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Don Bosco
FIREMEN TAKEN TO BELGIAN TRAWLER Selsey, Sussex. At 8.20 on the morning of 4th January, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler, later identified as the Belgian trawler Don Bosco, had her engine room on fire, and...
Stability
IN this article it is proposed to explain the nature and action of stability as con- cisely as the subject permits, without introducing technical terms, beyond those essential to definition, or attempting to go beyond the purely mechanical,...
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Alice T.
During a whole westerly gale on Sunday the 22nd February informa- tion was received that a vessel in Wexford Bay was making signals of distress. The crew of the Life-boat were summoned, and the boat was launched as quickly as possible. On...
Lion
LOOE, CORNWALL.—On the 29th August the Life-boat Oxfordshire was launched, and rescued one of the crew of the ketch Lion, of Exeter, which had sprung a leak and had capsized about five miles S.E. of Looe, during a strong S.S.W. wind. The...
Crania
CLACTON-ON-SBA, ESSEX.—A severe north-westerly gale was experienced off Clacton on the morning of the 15th March accompanied by a rough sea.
About 8.15 A.M. a vessel was seen drifting towards the Gunfleet...
Coventry Junior and Infant Schools
Edward Mockett, Coventry branch honorary secretary, receives a collecting box back from pupils of one of the 21 Coventry junior and infant schools which between them collected £160 for the RNLI.
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Functional Clothing
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June and Capella
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat had engine trouble a quarter of a mile west of Portland Bill. At 10.55 the life-boat William and Clara...
Firth Fisher
SEAMAN LANDED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.55 a.m. on 23rd May, 1964, the coastguard told the chairman of the branch committee that the motor vessel Firth Fisher was heading for Portpatrick with an injured seaman aboard. A doctor, who...
Scotland's Year.
1942 was Scotland's year. Scottish life-boatmen rescued 357 of the 596 lives, and the two stations of Great Britain and Ireland which rescued most lives were Peterhead, with 135, and Campbeltown with 74. Scotland also won 18 of the 38...
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