LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Devotion (1)
Anstruther, Fifeshire, and Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 7.34 on the evening of the 27th of January, 1959, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary at Anstruther that the fishing boat Devotion of Kirkcaldy was on fire about a mile and...
Spray
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1958, a message was received that a small motor boat was being driven ashore west of Portmagee. At 1.30 the life- boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea. There was a...
Pinta
JULY 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
While returning to Hull after a visit to Spurn, the small sailing yacht Pinta, of Hull, manned by five sea scouts, was forced to put back by a rising wind. The sea was moderate, but a...
Life-Boat Days In 1943.
In 1943 more branches held flag days, more people gave, and a larger sum was given than ever before. The number of days was 857, the number who gave was 10,761,000, and the sum given £131,172. That is £17,556 more than in 1942 and...
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A Small Boat (4)
On the 31st March a visitor went for a row in a small boat, but was carried out to sea by the wind and tide. He was seen by the coastguard, and the motor life-boat Westmorland was launched to his help at 12.23 P.M. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...
Mild and Bitter
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 6.28 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1959, the police were informed that the sailing dinghy Mild and Bitter had capsized in the bay and that two people were in the water. The honorary secretary and...
Jessie
ONE MAN IN A BARGE RESCUED Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.20 in the morn- ing of the 15th of March, 1947, the coastguard reported that a vessel at anchor three miles south-west from Bill Tower Look-out was flying a distress signal. A moderate...
A Sailing Dinghy
Barrow, Lancashire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th October, 1961, a life-boat shore helper informed the coxswain that a sailing dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Foulney Island. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was...
Cavalier
LOSSIEMOUTH, N.B.—On the 27th April, at 4. A.M., the Life-boat Bristol and Clifton put off, and rescued five men from the schooner Cavalier, of Lossiemouth, which had been driven ashore about fifty yards eastward of the old harbour. The wind...
H. F. Bolt
The Life-boat Elinor Soget was launched at 3 A.M., on the 7th November, while a moderate to strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea, and saved the crew of four men from the Ketch H. F. Bolt, of Appledore, coal-laden,...