CADGWITH AND LIZARD, CORNWALL.— Early on the morning of the 24th May the Cadgwith Life-boat Joseph Armstrong and the Lizard Life-boat Anna Maria were launched and proceeded, under sail and oars, to the assistance of the schooner Ellen Vair,...
THE brig Mountaineer was wrecked on Walmer Beach, on the 24th November, in a heavy gale from the eastward, when the crew, consisting of thirteen men and boys, with three Deal boatmen (the pilot, one Deal boatman, and two of the crew having...
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— 6th May. Distress signals had been heard in the direction of the Fame Islands, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £10 5s..
Longhope, Orkneys, and Thurso, Caithness- shire.— On the 21st February the French trawler Neptunia ran aground, and her crew of forty-one were rescued by the Longhope lifeboat.
The Thurso life-boat was also...
FISHING BOAT ON FIRE Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—At 5.30 in the evening of the 18th of January, 1948, the coastguard reported distress signals and at 5.55 the motor life-boat Margaret Dawson was launched. A strong west-south-west breeze was...
A model of the life-boat, Queen Victoria, in the battle of flowers at Guernsey.. - View image in PDF
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The new Bridlington life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield II was on show at the Coronation Exhibition in Derby (see page 593). - View image in PDF
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Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 1 st of November, 1953, the weather deteriorated and condi- tions at the harbour entrance became dangerous. The local fishing boat Premier was at sea with a crew of three, and at 2.30 the...
READERS of The Life-boat will be familiar with the name of Mr. H.
Jenkins, the photographer of Lowestoft, as a number of his fine photographs of life-boat work, which he has generously allowed the Institution to use, have ...
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New Brighton, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— On the 23rd November, 1938, the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat rescued the crew of three of the fishing boat Progress, of Hoylake, and the crew of four of the auxiliary schooner Loch Kanza Castle, of...