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Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...
Category: Correspondence
Lady Westmorland, of Newcastle
Early on the morning of the 24th January, during blowing weather and in a very hard frost, this noble boat and her consort were again the means of rendering good service to a shipwrecked crew. They went out in ready response to signal-guns...
Francesco Ciampa
The ship Francesco Giampa, of Castellamare, was observed, about noon on the 1st of May, making signals of distress, and the Life-boat William and Mary Devey was promptly launched to her assist- ance. The wind was blowing a fresh gale from...
Prairie Flower
WEXFORD.—While a moderate gale from W.S.W. to N.W. was blowing, accompanied by a rough sea, on the morning of the 16th April, signals of distress were seen flying on a fishing-smack. TheLife-boat .Andrew Pickard was launched at 9.45, sailed...
Haweswater
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The Lifeboat John Robert was teunched at 12.30 P.M. on the 7ih April, the coxswain having observed from his house a barque apparently ashore on Crosafarnogue Point.
The vessel, which had grounded in...
Gallantry of a Son of a Life-Boat Worker
On 12th November last, the British steamer Vestris, two days out on a voyage from New York to Barbados and South American ports, sank in a gale 240 miles off the coast of Virginia, with heavy loss of life. Among those on board her was the...
Category: Articles
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Two boys, in search of driftwood, crossed a ridge of rocks between the mainland and Scottle Holm, about two miles to the North of Lerwick, on 7th November, and were cut off by the rising tide. Their where- abouts was discovered about nine at...
Mark H. Leach
HELPLESS WITH BROKEN RUDDER Peterhead, Aberdeenihire.—At about 4.30 in the morning of the 1st of November, 1947, the coastguard re- ported that a vessel was burning flares three miles south-east by east of the coastguard station, and the...
Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
Largo Bay
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.—• At about 12.45 in the morning of the 27th of April, 1948, it was reported to the coastguard that the local motor fishing boat Largo Bay, which had gone out during the evening of the previous day had not...