LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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LERWICK'S 27 HOURS' SEARCH.
Lerwick, and Aith, Shetlands.—4th October, 1939. In the morning a Royal Air Force aeroplane came down on the sea about twenty-five miles N.E.
of the N.E. corner of...
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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Two Dinghies
Three boats TWO DINGHIES in difficulties were reported to the honorary secretary of Wicklow lifeboat station at 1655 on Monday April 16. The first dinghy, with two adults and five children on board, was a mile south of the lifeboat station...
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Northern Lights, of Preston
On the 29th October, at 8 p.m., the wind blowing a hard gale from west by north, signal lights were observed from Fleetwood, as if from a vessel in a dangerous position near the Bernard's Wharf Sand. The Fleetwood life-boat was at once...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FALMOUTH. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at this port. Although the harbour of Falmouth is of a land-locked character, yet there are occasions when disasters occur in its immediate vicinity...
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Marthe Roux
The Life-boat Robert and Susan was called out about 6.30 A.M. on the 25th Feb- ruary, to the assistance of the Barque Marthe Boux, of Havre, which had stranded on some dangerous rocks about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Newbiggin;...
Darling, from Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON.—On the 28th January, at 1.30 P.M., a signal from the Crosby Lightship gave warning that a vessel in distress near Tailor's Bank required the aid of a Life-boat. The tubular Life-boat was thereupon manned, and proceeded in...
Cyane
During a whole S.E. gale on the 1st October, signals of distress were made from the yacht Oyane, of Cork, lying at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat T. P. Hearne was very smartly launched and pro- ceeded to the yacht, which they found in a...
Alnwick
PWLLHELI, CARNARVONSHIRE. — A schooner was seen to be dragging her anchors and drifting rapidly towards St.
Patrick's Causeway, while a moderate gale was blowing from the N.W., with terrific squalls and a heavy sea, on...