LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
A Rowing Boat
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—In the early afternoon of the 19th of Septem- ber, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a man had gone out in a rowing boat, to tow in a dinghy which had blown out to sea, was unable to make headway and...
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNAL At 10.42 a.m. the next day, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Plympton police had reported that a boat needing help about a mile off Bovisand was under observation from Breakwater Fort and did...
Yewglen
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 5.27 on the morning of the 29th of February, 1960, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary that a vessel was ashore on Beadnell Point.
At 5.45 the...
Lifeboat People
WHEN FISHERMAN John Nudds of Wells, Norfolk, and his crew, Alfred Smith and Martin Frary, were presented with letters of commendation by the RNLI for rescuing the lives of two yachtsmen in difficulties last June, their 'local', the...
Category: Articles
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PRIEST TAKEN TO STORM-BOUND ISLAND Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At 5.30 on the afternoon of Friday the 30th August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a call from the priest of Tory Island, who was stormbound on the mainland, that a woman was...
A Barge
NEWPORT, PEMBROKESHIRE.—The Lifeboat Clevedon was the means of rendering timely service on the occasion of the Begatta held on the 17th August. A strong wind sprung up from the N.N.E., and the sea was somewhat rough, and the barge on which...
Ann Grace
POINT OF AYR (FLINTSHIRE), and HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — On the 21st February, during a whole gale from W.
with a very heavy sea, intelligence was received that rockets were being fired in the direction of Lime Wharf. The Point...
A Silver-Medal Service at New Brighton
THE Institution has awarded its silver medal to Coxswain W. H. Jones, of New Brighton; second-service clasps to the bronze medals they already hold to Second Coxswain J. Nicholson and Motor Mechanic W. Garbutt; its bronze medal to Second...
Category: Medals
A Sailing Dinghy
EXTENSIVE SEARCH At 8.15 a.m. on 24th April, 1965, the coastguard reported that an empty sailing dinghy had been picked up by a vessel off No. 5 Sea Reach buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.35....