LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Plowman
On the 17th No- vember, the smack Plowman, of Yar- mouth, was seen making signals of distress in Yarmouth Roads during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. The Duff small life- boat went off through a heavy sea, and after several attempts,...
Wanderer
The brig Wanderer, of Maryport, was being towed into that harbour during a south-westerly gale on the 18th December, when the tow- rope broke, and she drove ashore behind the North Pier. The Life-boat Henry Nixson, No. 1, promptly put off...
The Happy Harry
New Brighton, Cheshire.—On the 16th of September, 1950, the New Brighton No. 2 life-boat rescued the crew of four of the Happy Harry of Arklow.—Re- wards, to Acting-coxswain William Stephen Jones, a clasp to the bronze medal for gallantry...
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4: She Is Kept On Even Keel With Balancing Poles Which Support Her While She Is Hauled On To. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Division of the Midlands District
OWING to the great increase during the last few years in the work of organizing the Institution's appeals, it has been decided to divide the Midlands District, which up to the present has included Ireland and Wales. The Midlands...
Category: Committee
The S.S. Treneglos
WHITBURN, DURHAM.—The steam-tug Hook van Holland left Emden on the llth February at midday, having in tow the damaged s.s. Treneglos, of St.
Ives, intending to take her to South Shields, but early on the morning of the 14th...
A Dinghy and Lady Loren
Weymouth, Dorset - At 11.5 p.m.
on 27th August, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with five children on board was overdue. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings at 11.20 in...
Kestrel
At 12.35 a.m. on nth August, 1967, the honorary secretary was informed that a small boat which had been towing a boat with engine trouble had slipped the tow five miles south of the breakwater.
There were three men on board...
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Islay, Hebrides.—At 12.15 on the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1957, the Resident Medical Officer of the Island of Colonsay asked if the life-boat would convey a young woman suffering from appendicitis to Port Askaig in order that she could...