LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Stewart, of Greenock
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE SOMERSET. At 5.30 in the afternoon a message came from the Croyde coastguard, which he had received from the S.S.
Basiris, that a steamer was ashore on Weston Sands. A north-north-west...
Another Happy Collector
A LADY member of the Institution's branch at Crewe is a very keen gar- dener. She sells both plants and cut flowers, taking them by bus into the town where she has many standing orders and more requests than she can fulfil. The manager...
Category: Donations
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Stag rescued after cliff plunge The British are proud of being a nation of animal lovers. Only here would a major rescue operation be mounted to save a wild animal. But as a deer was finally pulled to safety after a 5 hour ordeal, everyone...
Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground
ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
Category: Services
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
WE have much pleasure in publishing the following letter from Dr. PAGET-BLAKE, of Torquay, which shows the importance of retaining in the new Directions of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION a portion of Dr. MARSHALL HALL'S...
Category: Correspondence
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd of April, 1958, the motor mechanic was told that the body of a man had been seen in the sea at Arklow Rock. The Civic Guards were informed and they replied that the body could not be...
Douglas
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1959, the honorary secretary noticed that the motor fishing vessel Douglas had run aground near the harbour entrance.
There was a heavy sea running, and...
A Motor Boat and Six Yachts
TWO LIFE-BOATS PUT OUT TO YACHT Llandudno, Caernarvonshire, and Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the Llandudno coastguard reported that a small motor boat, which had six yachts in tow, was making no...
Saga
MOTORS FAILED At 4.20 p.m. on I4th June, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that he had received a message from the motor vessel Anchorman that a small fishing boat, the Saga, had broken down three miles south-east of the harbour and...
The S.S. Kyle Castle
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 3.45 on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Forniby coastguard that the S.S. Kyle Castle, of Liverpool, with a crew of twelve, had a heavy list about twenty miles...