LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Fowey, Cornwall.—About 4.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, news was received that a woman had fallen over the cliffs near Gribben Head, and the motor life-boat C.D.E.C., with a small boat in tow, was launched at 4.35. A strong...
Korab II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 4.55 in the afternoon of the 10th of October, 1949, the Gorleston coast- guard telephoned a message from the Cross Sand lightvessel that a motor fishing vessel had broken tlown about a mile to the...
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
Morena
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 20th of July, 1952, information was received from the coastguard that a yacht had burned a red flare four to five miles north- north-west of Tol-Pedn-Penwith. The life-boat Susan Ashley was...
Yacht Anita
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At five o'clock on the evening of the 15th of Septem- ber, 1952, the Penmon coastguard telephoned that a yacht had been reported aground on the Dutchman Bank, and at 5.40 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts...
Rescue By a Converted Life-Boat
Ox the 15th of December, 1950, Mr.
W. A. Haines, of Burnham Overy, near Wells, on the Norfolk coast, was out musselling in the Wash, with another man, in a converted life-boat. The wind was blowing hard, with squalls of...
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Dimcyl
Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 9th of August, 1951, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched on a pub- licity trip to the Broads for Festival Life-boat Week. A moderate, but increasing swell was running with a moderate...
A Sand-hopper
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—On the morning of the 26th November, 1938, the coastguard reported a vessel ashore off the Dysinni River. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched at...
Jim M.
BRINGING A SICK MAN ASHORE Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 9.25 in the evening of February 7th, 1947, information was received through the coastguard that the motor vessel Jim M., of London, which was anchored...
Mayflower
When the mail steamer Isle of Sark arrived from Jersey on the morning of the 9th January, the captain reported to the harbour master that a small steamer appeared to be in difficulties about three miles S.W. of Sark. He had seen large...