LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Vessels
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
Two vessels had been reported on the Lemon Bank, but they got off and went on their way. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..
Two Boats
OCTOBER 14TH . - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. During the previous night two small boats with naval men aboard had drifted out of harbour, but they made land without help. - Rewards, £5 14s.
Miss Pritchard and William Henry
GBOOKSPOBT, IRELAND.—At 8.30 A.M.
on the 29th September it was reported that two vessels were dragging their anchors and were likely to be driven ashore at Bangor Point. A heavy gale was Wowing from the N.E. and the sea was...
A Cabin Cruiser
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 30th of July, 1951, the Trevose Head Coastguard tele- phoned that he could see an object which he thought was a Carley float, with someone on it waving, about four miles west of Lower...
House-To-House Collections Act, 1939
UNDER the new House-to-House Collections Act, which came into operation on the 1st March, 1940, all collections made from house to house or door to door are controlled by regulations and licences issued by the police.
The...
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Ranger
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. —- At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of July, 1956, immediately after the life- boat had returned from a previous service, a message was received from the Southend (Argyll) coastguard that a small...
Melona
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.46 on the morning of the 6th of October, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that a boat anchored three miles south- east of Clacton pier was showing dis- tress signals. At 10.5 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Little Meg
Redcar, Yorkshire, At 10.20 on the morning of the 20th of October, 1957, the Saltburn coastguard telephoned that a yacht had capsized off Saltburn.
At 10.45 the life-boat City of Leeds was launched in a moderate sea. A...
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Galway Bay. At 3.30 on the after- noon of the 29th of May, 1958, the local doctor requested the use of the life-boat to take a patient urgently needing surgical help to the mainland.
At 3.40 the life-boat William and...
A Naval Whaler
TWO YOUTHS RESCUED FROM WHALER Howth, Co. Dublin. At 6.45 p.m. on Sunday the 14th of July, 1963, the coxswain was told that a naval whaler with two youths on board was unable to return to Howth owing to near gale force winds from the...