LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DIED AFTER FALL Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5 p.m. on I2th June, 1964, the gardai told the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen down the cliff at Balscadden and could be seen in the water. The tide had been ebbing for two hours and there was a...

Swanage, Dorset. At 6.44 on the evening of the 4th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Camroux I of London had a yacht in tow which she wished to hand over. As no other boat was available,...

FEBRUARY 1 7 T H . - P O R T A S K A I G , ARGYLLSHIRE. On the 16th February a request was received by telephone from a doctor and the minister on the Island of Colonsay for the help of the life-boat to bring a sick woman to Islay, whence...

DEC. 14TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO.

WATERFORD. The motor ship Cairngorm, of Glasgow, shortly after taking a pilot aboard, went aground on the west side of Waterford Harbour, one and a half miles from Dunmore East. Distress...

CABIN CRUISER SAVED At 11.5 p.m. on nth September, 1965, the coastguard reported that he had seen a cabin cruiser run ashore, but that she had refloated. She went ashore for a second time a little later and burnt a red flare, so at 11.20 the...

Dunbar, East Lothian. At ten o'clock on the morning of the 19th of March, 1958, a message was received that a fishing boat was in need of help twelve miles east-north-east of Dunbar.

At 10.25 the life-boat...

The first box offish sold at the new £325,000 fish market at Brixham, Devon, was put up for auction for the benefit of the Torbay branch. It was sold three times over and netted £23.96..

Expenditure.

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2,965 13 - 37,538 11 3 19,475 17 5 23,603 18 4 13,781 11 9 52,420 6 8 266,261 18 4 Life-boats :— 66,625 18 10 710 4 _' 31,074 8...