LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corah
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. — About eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of August, 1956, it was reported that the fishing boat Corah, with five people on board, was overdue. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at 11.50...
Alison Mary
ESCORT FOR BOAT WITH CREW MEMBER ABOARD St. Abbs, Berwickshire. On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Alison Mary, which was long overdue from fishing. There was a fresh northerly...
Hughie Green's Autograph Session
It was a cold and blustery August bank holiday when the annual life-boat flag day was held in Rhyl this year. A further handicap was the lateness of the bank holiday - fewer people were in the town. The outlook for fund raising was poor,...
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Fredrick
CAMBOIS, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the afternoon of the 22nd March, while a strong gale was blowing from X., accompanied by a very heavy sea, the coxswain of the Life-boat Otteald, Sarah and Jane saw a vessel strand on the South Bank at the...
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 7th of March, 1958, the local motor fishing vessel Success was at the fishing grounds. During the day the weather became very bad, and at 2.25 in the afternoon the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Start
Cromer, Norfolk. At i.io a.m.
on 16th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a message from the North Haisbro lightvessel that red flares had been sighted in a position six...
Feature: First Impressions
The week of The Queen's visit saw Castletownbere lifeboat crew immersed in training at the College. They were getting to grips with their new Severn class Lifeboat, Annette Mutton, and so were on hand to aid Her Majesty's departure....
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Review of Books
' THE MATE AND HIS DUTIES.' By flw late Capt. JOSEPH J. KELLY. Third Edition.
TAYLOR, IMRAY, and SON, Minories, London; ROCKLIFF and SON, Liverpool.
Price 2s.
IN our 29th...
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Phantee
TOW FOR MOTOR BOAT IN THICK FOG St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.50 on the evening of the 7th June, 1963, the coxswain learnt that the motor boat Phantee, with two people on board, had gone out fishing at five o'clock and had not yet...
Expedit
ARBROATH, N.B.—At about 8.30 A.M.
on the 15th April, a brigantine was seen approaching the shore from the eastward.
As she was showing a signal of distress the Peoples Journal No. 2 Life-boat was launched...