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A Steamer (8)

Date: June 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 314

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, and Don- aghadee, Co. Down.—25th February.

A steamer stranded, but of the people on board some were taken off by another vessel and others reached the shore over the rocks.—Rewards, Port- patrick,...

A Pilot Cutter's Boat

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Weymouth, Dorset.—23rd January.

A pilot cutter's boat had capsized, and a steamer had picked up one man. The other two had been drowned before help could reach them. The boat and rescued man were brought ashore by the...

Awards

Date: April 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 333

A large number of awards have been made this year to coxswains, life- boatmen and honorary workers. The particulars of them are held over, owing to lack of space, until the next issue of The Life-boat..

Category: Awards

Ada Mary

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 10.45 on the night of the 20th of November, 1950, a resident of Leigh - on - Sea reported that red rockets had been seen off Leigh. At 11.8 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 was launched. The sea...

A Life-Boat for Turkey

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

A 35-feet 6-inches twin screw self- righting life-boat has been built at Cowes, to the plans and specification of the Institution, for the Turkish State Railways and Harbour Adminis- tration. She left Cowes for Istanbul in April. It is...

Category: Articles

A Motor Boat (2)

Date: September 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 369

Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 10th of June, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a small motor boat off Leysdown, with Sea Cadets on board, had broken down..

Pamela

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—On the 26th of June, 1949, the auxiliary ketch Pamela, bound for Oban with seven persons, ran aground in Glenehervie Bay in a dense fog. The owner went ashore, and at 3.30 in the afternoon telephoned for the...

An Aircraft

Date: December 1938

Volume: 30

Issue: 336

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—22nd September, 1938. The police reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea.

The life-boat found an oil patch and dragged with grappling irons for a sunken aeroplane, but could find...

Notes for Speakers

Date: June 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 424

Those who give talks on the life-boat service may like to know that standard notes for speakers, which are revised at regular intervals to ensure that they include information about new developments, are available on request to the Head...

Category: Articles

Fee des Ondes

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

FRENCH RESCUED Youghal, Co. Cork. On 2yth October, 1963, the Youghal life-boat, Herbert John, rescued four men from the French trawler Fee des Ondes. A full account of this service, for which special awards were made to the coxswain and crew...