LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the Swanage ambulance station that a man had fallen down the cliffs near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- boat R.L.P. was...
Income and Expenditure.—1st January to 31st December, 1862
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Alliance
PADSTOW.—Shortly, after midnight on the 16th October, the Life-boat was launched, a messenger on horseback having arrived from Trevose Head, and reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress to the eastward of Gullan. A terrific...
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 19TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
At 10.31 P .M. information was received, through the coastguard, that the coastwatching post at Kennack had seen an aeroplane crash into the sea in Kennack Bay, and in eight minutes the...
The Edinburgh Lightvessel
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
Dynamo
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 3.54 in the afternoon, on the 10th of December, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that North Foreland Radio reported the steamer Dynamo, of Hull, aground two miles south-south-west of Ramsgate. At 4.8 the life-boat...
Thorn Paul
Girvan, Ayrshire. —At 6.30 on the evening of the 16th of February, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that the local fishing boat Aurora had wirelessed that the fishing boat Thorn Paul, of Whitehaven, had lost her rudder about nine miles...
Dekar
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 20th March, during a strong gale from "the E.N.E. and a heavy sea, the schooner Dekar, of Hull, was observed coming from the North close to the rocks, and evidently unable to clear the land. The Life-boat John...