LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suffolk Coast
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—-At noon on the 15th January, 1938, a message was received that a doctor was wanted on board the steamer Suffolk Coast, of Liverpool, which was anchored off Milford Haven, and that no ordinary boat could make the trip....
The Motor Fishing Coble Comrade
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — The local motor fishing coble Comrade was expected in from sea some tune after noon on the 30th January, 1938, and as she did not come, anxiety was felt for her safety. A N.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
King Edgar
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after 9 P.M. on the 14th February, 1938, the life-boatman on watch reported a large steamer aground on the Inner Binks. The sea was rough, with an E.N.E. wind and snow squalls. At 9.30 P.M. the motor life-boat...
A Fishing Boat
Two fishermen of Appledore went mackerel fishing off Rock's Nose on the afternoon of the llth August. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth.
A sudden squall capsized the boat, and both men were...
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Galway Bay. At 6.15 on the evening of the 30th of September, 1958, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary for the use of the life-boat to convey him to Inishere to attend a patient believed to have appendicitis. At 6.30 the...
Royal Humane Society Award
THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its testimonial on vellum to Mr. Harry Davis of Camborne, who swam out from a cave near St. Ives on the 9th of August, 1958, in order to summon help for a party stranded in the cave. As a result the St....
Category: Awards
Centenary of Fowey Station
AT a ceremony in the Council Chamber at Fowey, Cornwall, on the 7th of December, 1959, Lieut.-Commander H.
H. Harvey, Western District Inspector, handed the vellum commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the establish-...
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Vessels Elegant and Iris
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.56 on the afternoon of the 23rd of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Elegant was standing by the motor fishing vessel Iris of Buckle, which was leaking...
Rosebank
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Rosebank of Wick appeared to be in distress in Sinclair Bay. At 3.40 the life-boat City of...
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Galway Bay. At 10.30 on the morn- ing of the 10th of December, 1959, the local doctor asked the honorary secre- tary if the life-boat could take a patient, who urgently needed hospital treatment, from Inisheer to Rossaveal pier on the...