LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gannet Aircraft (3)
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
A Hunter Aircraft (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 5.48 on the 7th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that a Hunter aircraft had crashed into the sea and that the pilot had baled out ten miles north of Lundy. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched at...
A Swedish Life-Boatwoman
All Life-boat workers, and particularly those women who help in the actual launching of Life-boats, will be interested to know that there is now in Sweden a woman who is a regular swain had a daughter who had, from the ' very earliest...
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A Steamer (26)
MAY 10TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but the eight survivors of her crew of fourteen were landed by two boats which had put out from Withernsea. - Paid permanent crew..
A Fishing Smack
At 11.30 P.M. on the 16th November, "flare-up" signals on the Scroby Sand being observed from the Life-boat Station, the No. 2 Life-boat was launched, and an fishing smack aground, surrounded by ...
A Lobster Fishing Boat
LOBSTER BOAT'S CREW LOST Dunmore East, Co. Watcrford.—On the morning of the 2nd of May, 1947, news was received from Brownstown Head by the civic guard that a lobster fishing boat had not been heard of since seven o'clock the...
A Dinghy (6)
DUNKIRK MAN At 3.46 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a dinghy was in difficulties on the East Winner. At 3.48 the IRB was launched in a slight south westerly breeze and calm sea. The tide was flooding. The IRB...
A Yacht (1)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.5 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a boat had been reported appar- ently in distress off the Cliff Hotel, Holland-on-Sea. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Notes of the Quarter from Page 183
crew acquitted themselves with distinction in spite of the fact that two of the members were in their 50s. Rowing an unfamiliar type of craft known as a Monamoy, they won their heat against a formidable crew representing the US National...
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A Fishing Calendar for 1949
ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...
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