LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ada Kirby
CREW OF EIGHT At 1.50 a.m. on 2oth November, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a vessel was aground one mile south of the North Caister buoy. At 2.10, when the tide was two hours before low water, the life-boat The Royal Thames was...
The Liberian Motor Vessel Capeton Kostis
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 3rd of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the Liberian motor vessel Capeton Kostis had a very sick man on board and asked if the the life-boat would land him.
At...
Bagatelle
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...
The Newquay Fishing Vessel Talisman
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.12 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that the Newquay fishing vessel Talisman was without fuel one mile off St. Agnes Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George Orlando and Eva Child was launched in a...
The S.S. Waesland
NORTH DEAL AND WALMER.—On the night of the 4th March the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville, and the Walmer Lifeboat Civil Service No. 4, were launched to the assistance of the s.s.' Waesland, of and for Antwerp, from New York, with a...
Canores
Torbay, Devon. At 7.27 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch coaster Vliestroom had asked for the help of a life-boat as she was standing by the yacht Canores. The yacht had lost...
The Sailing Coble Egret
SAILING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.41 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing coble Egret, which was on a pleasure trip from Amble to Blyth, was making...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Five of the small fishing cobles were overtaken by a strong N.E. gale when out for the purpose of obtaining their crab pots on the 17th March. They at once aban- doned their fishing and returned to port.
The weather was...
A Polish Soldier's Teeth
A Polish soldier has sent the Institution a pound to show hij gratitude to a Scottish dentist who had "cured his teeth," and would accept no payment..
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Bess
Barrow, Lancashire. — On the morn- ing of the 31st of July, 1949, a strong west-south-west breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. At 5.13 the Walney coastguard reported that a trawler had spoken to a motor yacht west of More- cambe Bay...