LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Central Appeals Committee
THE RNLI Midnight Matinee to be held at the Victoria Palace in London, which had to be postponed, will now take place on Friday, March 8, 1974, and it should be possible to include full details in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT.
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Pinnace
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 8 a.m. on 30th September, 1969, it was learnt that the cabin cruiser Pinnace had broken down off the Morecambe bay lightvessel and required assistance.
At 9.7 the life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was...
Charles Parsons
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 1.55 p.m. on I4th February, 1967, news was received that a member of the crew of the collier Charles Parsons had injured his ankle. The position of the vessel was about two miles east of the harbour...
Mandalay
NORTH DEAL—The coxswain of the Life-boat Mary Somerville was called, at about 1.30 A.M. on the 12th December, by the Coastguard, who informed him that guns and rockets were being fired by the Gull light-vessel. He at once summoned the crew,...
Mary Ann
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—On the night of Sunday the 1st October, 1876, the No. 2 Life-boat, John Turner-Turner, rescued the crew of the brig Mary Ann, of Whitehaven, and 4 boatmen, being 10 in all, from that vessel, which had drifted on the...
Jane
On the following morning the Life-boat went out before daybreak, during a strong E.N.E. wind and a heavy sea, to the schooner Jane, of Faversham, which was showing flares in the South Koads, and brought ashore the master's son and one of...
Ecureuil
Oo the 6th December, at about 2.30 VM,,the lugger Ecureuil, of Gravelines, in ballast, which had lost her mainmast, was driven ashore on the North Saads during a storm from the E.N.E, sad a very high sea. The No. 1 Life-boat, Charles Mather,...
A Steam Fishing Launch
CADGWITH, CORNWALL,—On the 1st September September a terrific gale of wind Mew from the S., and the sea was very heavy. The Joseph Armstrong Life-boat put off at 3 P.M., and conducted safely ashore one of the steam fishing-launches belonging...
Arran, of Irvine
On the 19th April, the bngArran, of Irvine, was stranded, | during a fresh gale of wind, on the bank be- tween the Main and Ireland's Eye, off Howth. The Howth life-boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded in bringing the...
A Life-Boat Christmas
IN the article "A Life-boat Christmas," in the last issue of the Journal, it should have been recorded among the visits of life-boats to lightvessels, that the Walton and Frinton boat also went out and took Christmas gifts to the...
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