LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
E.M.L
In a strong easterly breeze on the night of the : 28th May, the mast of the lugger ': E. M. L., of Folkestone, was carried away in a heavy squall. The crew then ; rigged up a jury mast and proceeded to- !...
Breadwinner
On the llth December, during a moderate south- west gale with a heavy sea, the coast- guard reported that a vessel was burning flares opposite the Life-boat station.
The Life-boat John Burch was launched, and, on arrival,...
Cicerone
During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...
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Padstow, Cornwall. At 1.25 early on the morning of 10th of January, 1958, the Trevose Head coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashing lights had been seen nineteen miles north- east-by-nprth of Pentire Head. The no. 2 life-boat...
Under Starter's Orders
Pictured at the start of the race are, standing left to right: Mr R. Vivian May, a member of the fund raising committee and deputy president of Bridport branch, the director and Mrs Joan Best, president of Beaminster branch. Kneeling left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Young John
WEXFORD.—In the afternoon of the 10th February, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. with a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the fishing lugger Young John, of St. Ives, which had left Wexford on her homeward journey two...
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Aith, Shetlands. At 1.35 on the afternoon of the 23rd of December, 1958, a doctor told the honorary secretary that a woman on the Island of Foula had fallen and broken her hip and needed hospital treatment im- mediately. As the weather was...
Thais
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.10 P.M. on the 6thAugust, 1939, the coastguard informed the life-boat station at Swanage that a sailing yacht had capsized off Christchurch Ledge Buoy, and the motor lifeboat Thomas Markby...
W. L. J.
CAISTEE.—The three-masted schooner W. L. J., of Swansea, bound from Goole for Plymouth with coal, and carrying a crew of ten men, was seen to near the Barber Sand and let go her anchor on the 28th December. As it was feared she would go...
A Dinghy and Mambo
TWO CASUALTIES At 6.52 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting one mile south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at...