LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the deration and...
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Evadne
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At 12.30 A.M. on the 18th May the life-boat station received information from the pierhead that flares had been seenfrom the lower end of the Nore Sands.
The sea was rough, with a fresh wind...
Apapa
Penlee, Cornwall.—At 2.55 A.M. on the 30th October, 1937, the Penzance coastguard telephoned that the small motor boat Apapa, with one man on board, was missing from Newlyn.
A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea...
Maggie (1)
Newhaven and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 30th May, 1938, fishermen reported to the Newhaven life-boat station that the fishing smack Maggie, of Shoreham, was long overdue. A strong S.W. gale was blowing, with a...
The S.S. Baron Elcho
Campbeltown, Argyllshire. — During the morning of the 28th of June, 1952, a radio telegram was received from the S.S. Baron Elcho, of Ardrossan, that she was making for Campbeltown to land a very badly injured seaman.
She...
Amulet
Salcombe, Devon.—At 8.45 in the evening on the 3rd of August, 1950, a report from Dartmouth announced a small yacht in difficulties six miles south-south-west of Prawle Point.
There was an injured man aboard! Fifteen...
Lady Jane
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.55 in the after- noon, on the 8th of September, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was burning red flares one and a half miles south-south-east of Selsey Bill.
The sea was choppy, with a light...
Loadstar
DRIFTING WITH FOULED PROPELLER Moelfre, Anglesey.—At midnight on the 7th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported flares, and the motor life-boat G.W. was launched at 12.15 on the morning of the 8th in a strong north- north-west wind with a...
Fishing Boats
FIVE COBLES ESCORTED BACK IN GALE Scarborough, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 31st May, 1962, when five local fishing boats were at sea, a strong northerly gale blew up and the sea became very rough. As conditions were growing worse, the...
None (12)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 3.22 on the afternoon of the 16th August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a girl who had been bathing off Inverallochy sands had been swept out to sea and was in difficulties.
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