Whitby, Yorkshire. — At 3.45 in the afternoon on the 2nd of April, 1950, fishermen reported that the fishing coble Jean and Valerie was making very heavy weather about four miles to the south. Accordingly at 4.10 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
JULY 14TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 11.20 A.M. the coastguard reported that two bathers, men of the R.A.F., were drowning off Perranporth. A strong S.W. wind was blowing with a moderately heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
JULY 14TH. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. About 11.30 in the morning the Southbourne coastguard reported that a boat had capsized a mile from the shore oft Christchurch Ledge. The motor life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched at 11.35 in...
JULY 30TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.52 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that Horse Sand Fort had reported a motor boat flying a flag and drifting eastwards. The motor life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 5.10 in a...
IT is pleasant to be able to publish the following letter from a little girl, who has evidently been trained, at her mother's knee, to admire the spirit of self-sacrifice which animates those who render personal service to humanity,...
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Jeff Morris, the honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society is a prolific source of booklets on individual lifeboat stations and historical lifeboat matters. Few issues of THE LIFEBOAT pass without an opportunity to review...
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LIFE-BOAT DAY in Chippenham, Wilts., was held on September 16th, and in spite of the fact that the Kiver Avon was ten feet above its normal level, and the centre of the town flooded, the collectors went about their work undismayed and...
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Wells, Norfolk.—At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 22nd of March, 1956, the life-boat second coxswain received a report that the local motor fishing boat Harvester was overdue with a crew of two. At four o'clock the life- boat Cecil Paine...
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of October, 1960, the local official of the Northern Lighthouse Board asked for the use of the life-boat to bring ashore a sick keeper from the Chickens Rock...
Galway Bay. At 10.45 on the night of the 19th of November, 1958, the cox- swain received a request from the local doctor for the life-boat to take an expectant mother to the mainland. At eleven o'clock the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson...