LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Isle of Rona
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 19th of August, 1956, the Trevose Head coastguard rang up to say that the Camelford police had reported a small sailing boat in diffi- culties near Tintagel Point. The no. 1 life-boat Joseph...
Rolf Jarl
LANDING A THAMES PILOT Ramsgate, Kent.—At 4 o'clock in the morning of the 30th of November, 1947, the coxswain received a telephone call from the Margate coastguard asking for help in landing a Thames pilot from the Norwegian steamer...
Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The local fishing boat Success, which had been out fishing all night, enquired by wireless at nine in the morning of the 20th cf May, 1948, what the condition was at the "harbour mouth. She was told that if she came...
Beal Bourine
UNABLE TO MOVE At 11.45 a-m- on 22nd August, 1964, the life-boat's motor mechanic was told that a motor fishing boat was on the rocks at Guileen in a choppy sea and fresh westsouth- westerly breeze. At 11.55, when the tide was at low...
Patriot, of Wexford
AUGUST 9TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At nine in the evening a telephone message from the military lookout post at Greenore Point reported that the motor fishing boat Patriot, of Wexford, appeared to have broken down and to be flying...
Sammax
JANUARY 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 in the evening the vice-admiral at Dover requested the services of the life-boat to take a doctor to the British steamer Sammax. A north-west gale was blowing, with snow, and the sea was rough. In that...
H.M.S. Leeds Castle, a Frigate
OCTOBER 10TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10.50 in the morning the Southend coastguard reported a naval vessel aground near Kildonan Point. The naval authorities said that a tug and a frigate were going to her help, but at 11.10 they...
A Dinghy (1)
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At 6.45 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1956, the inspector of police at Truro tele- phoned to say that three men were in a small dinghy at King Harry Ferry in the River Fal. The dinghy was rapidly rilling with...
The S.S. Sir James (1)
Girvan, and Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.48 on the evening of the 5th of May, 1954, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned the Girvan life-boat station that the S.S. Sir James, of Cardiff, was drifting ashore between Heads of Ayr and Turnberry...
Lottery
There was a family atmosphere at the draw of the 35th national lottery on October 31, 1986. The draw was made in front of staff and supporters by the reigning Miss Bournemouth, Celia Williams (pictured right), whose other claim to fame is... - View image in PDF
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