LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Galway Bay.—At 11.30 in the morn- ing of the 25th of February, 1949, a doctor asked for the help of the life- boat to take an urgent maternity case to the mainland. No other suitable boat was available, and the life-boat K.E.C.F. was...
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Ocean Breaker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. — At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, a local yacht club told the life-boat coxswain that a yacht was in distress near the club's slipway at Westcliff. At 3.10 the life-boat Greater...
Katharine
BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. The schooner Katharine, of Banff, bound from Bo'ness for Poole with a cargo of coal, struck on the North Steel Bocks, off Boulmer, in a S.S.E. wind and a high sea, on the morning of the 2nd November,foggy weather...
A Rubber Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...
Annual Awards 1974
The Maud Smith Bequest Award for the bravest act of lifesaving by a member of a lifeboat crew in 1974 has been awarded to Coxswain Tom Richard 'Ben' Tart of Dungeness. On February 11 the Dungeness lifeboat under Coxwain Tart's...
Category: Awards
Fishing Boats (4)
MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.
As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...
A Small Motor Fishing Boat
Just after mid- night on the 18th-19th July news was received that a small motor fishing boat, with four visitors on board, was missing. The boat had last been seen near the harbour bar. She had no compass, and, as a thick fog had come on,...
V Webster
TEDDY BEARS PICNIC When your organisation holds its next fund raising effort at a carnival, fete, donkey derby, boat show or similar activity you can make an additional £200 in a few hours by running a Teddy Bears Picnic. No financial...
Category: Advertisement
A Fishing Coble
CULLERCOATS.—On the 2nd December the Life-boat Palrnerston, stationed here, was the means of saving 1 man of the crew of a fishing coble which was upset in running for the shore. Three others unfortunately perished before the arrival of the...