LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—On the morning of the 17th of March, 1949, a westerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and at five o'clock a doctor on the Island of Eigg rang up Mallaig to ask if the life-boat could come to the...

(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...

ON the 8th October, 1926, the Aberdovey Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the ketch Madge, of Chester, and saved the vessel. Out of the salvage money received the Crew have given £5 11s. to the Institution.

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Lerwick, Shetlands. At 5.50 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ertnan, of Kristiansund, whose position was twenty-two mile seast of Bressay Light, had asked for a...

Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...

Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 8.50 on the evening of the 8th of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser needed help a mile and a half south-east-by- south of the Bench Head buoy. The life-boat Sir Godfrey...

BARGE SINKING IN THE THAMES Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 7th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported that a barge, from which they had rescued a woman, was drifting away from the pier and sinking, and her...

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