LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1958. 77 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING JANUARY life-boats were launched on service 45 times and rescued 54 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO GRIMSBY TRAWLER Bridlington, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 3rd of January, 1958, the...
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Actuality
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On Friday the 3rd of February, 1950, the motor vessel Actuality of London, on passage from Drogheda to Sunderland, entered Peterhead Bay to shelter from bad weather. Being short of food, she sent a boat ashore in...
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.
The S.S. St. Ninian
JULY 16TH . - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.15 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel had gone ashore at North Head. A light N.E. breeze was blowing, with a slight sea, and there was a thick fog....
The S.S. Skandinavian (1)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS. — At 2.30 A.M. on the 11th April, during strong N.Jf.E. wind and a heavy sea, the Goodwin and Gull Lightships fired signals.
The Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and the harbour steam-tug Aid, as well...
None (1)
4th Novem- ber. A report that an aeroplane had been seen to fall in the sea was received, but though the life-boat searched for a long time nothing was found.—Re- wards, £17 0*. 3d..
Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
An Aeroplane (31)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that an aeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The...
The Best Essay
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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