LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maid of Tire & Oxalis
On the same day the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham, stationed at Boulmer, was called out on two occasions, but the first time, when the schooner Maid of Tire, of Inverness, struck and sunk on the North Steel rocks the services of the...
Gaelic Ferry, of London
SICK MAN LANDED Bringing sick people ashore from ships for prompt hospital treatment is another frequent call on the life-boat service. At 10.18 p.m. on llth February, 1971, it was learnt that the Gaelic Ferry of London was steaming towards...
Twelve Times As Much.
The branch in Newport, Shropshire, which in 1942 raised £12, and has never before raised more than £17, last year raised £205..
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Lothian
During a very heavy gale from the S.W. on the same night, signals of distress were shown from the brigantine Lothian, of this port, which had grounded on the Seaton Sea Rocks off the harbour's mouth. The Life-boat Sal- ford put off, but...
Success
Redcar, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At about 9.45 A.M. on the 2nd January, 1939, the coastguard at Marske telephoned that a motor fishing vessel was in distress four miles north-east of Huntcliffe. She was the Success, of Whitby, with a crew...
Sea Clown
TOW FOR MOTOR WSSEL WITH FIVE ABOARD Hastings, Sussex. At 3.57 p.m. on Sunday the 21st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the wife of the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Sea Clown of Rye had broken down off Pett Level. There was...
Gertie
DECEMBER 8TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the military lookout post at Greenore Point that rockets and flares had been seen, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor lift-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was...
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St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At 8.5 on the morning of the 5th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a man in the Smalls lighthouse was sick and asked if the life-boat would take him ashore. At 8.30 the life-boat...
Silver Coquet , Provider
Amble, Northumberland - At 10.30 a.m. on ist December, 1966, two fishing cobles were reported overdue. Atn o'clock the Life-boat Millie Walton left her moorings. It was nearly low water. There was a rough sea and a southerly...
R.N.L.I. Horse Show
The annual horse show at Claygate, Surrey, which is known as the 'R.N.L.I. horse show' and is now one of the biggest shows in Surrey, will take place in June. Through Mr. John Bullock, a director of the Chrysler Motor Group, the...
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