LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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22nd June. A patient who had escaped from the Dorset County Mental Hospital swam out to a rock surrounded by the sea, in order to escape from the nurses, but was swept off by the rising tide and swam ashore again.—Rewards, £4 7s....
Ayesha
Clacton - on - Sea, Essex.—At 11.6 in the morning of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was reported ashore on the Barrow Sands, flying a distress signal, and at 11.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Her First Day of Service
The Bridlington motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, escorting in the Scarborough fishing vessel Irene on the 5th December, 1947.
On the same day she helped to refloat a Fraserburgh drifter.
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Category: Photographs
Joass
Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 in the even- ing of the 24th of July, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned a message, received from a steamer through North Foreland Radio, that a sailing yacht wa's aground on Tongue Sands, four miles south-east of...
Helen Craig, of Belfast
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At about 4 P.M. on the 6th December a message was received that a steamer was in distress on the south side of the Ribble channel. She was the Helen Craig, of Belfast, bound for Preston, with a crew of...
City of Dublin
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—On the evening of the 8th January the steamer City of Dublin, of Dublin, bound home from Hamburg with a general cargo, ran aground on Arldow Main Bank, about five miles north of the light-vessel.
A...
Two Aeroplanes
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th April, 1938.
Two aeroplanes had been reported to have come down in the sea, but a search in which another plane joined revealed nothing. The honorary secretary of the station and district inspector...
Sangara
Penlee, Cornwall. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 25th of May, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that a woman who was a passenger on board the m.v. Sangara of Liverpool, had had a haemorrhage and needed a doctor. The...
Sandrae
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.
Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...
Coxswain Joseph Mercer
Coxswain Joseph Mercer of Walmer died on the 5th of January, 1961, at the age of 80. He was coxswain from 1935 to 1945, having previously served for eight years as second coxswain. He was award- ed the bronze medal for gallantry for the...
Category: Obituaries