LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Keel Boat Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 18th of March, 1951, the weather got worse, and there was anxiety for the safety of the local keel boat Courage, at sea with a crew of five.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the...
A Hornsey School's Concert and Collection
A DONATION of £3 13s. has been received from the Campsbourne Road Girls' School, Hornsey, London, and many may like to know how the girls succeeded in collecting such a sum. First, two concerts were given by the Play Centre, and the...
Category: Donations
June Kilgour
The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
Thomas and Catherine Latham
During a strong S. gale on the 13th October, signals of distress were shown by the schooner Thomas, of and from Liverpool, for Amlwch, laden with coal, which was lying at anchor in Bed Wharf Bay.
The crew of the Life-boat...
The Sunbeam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9 o'clock in the evening of the 1st of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor vessel broken down off Saltdean, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 9.5 in calm...
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Child resuscitated at Perran Sands Lucy A Beach Rescue lifeguard was patrolling between the red and yellow flags on a warm sunny day in Cornwall, when he spotted a woman waving frantically for help on the beach. Her young daughter had fallen...
Marjory Gaw
PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...
A New Life-Boat Book
A NEW book on the Life-boat Service is to appear in the autumn. It will be by Major-General the Right Hon. J. E.
Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Vice-President of the Institution, and will have a foreword by H.R.H....
Category: Articles
Cancer
On the 13th January during a very dense fog, signals of distress were heard from a steamer.
As it was thought that she was ashore on the "Inner Binks," the Life-boat was launched and proceeded along the edge of...
The S.S. Pinna
At 6.50 A.M. on the 1st January a message was received at the Coast-guard Signal Station from the captain of the s.s. Pinna, of London, to the effect that he was in distress and required immediate assist- ance. The vessel was drifting before...