LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 7th of May, 1958, the police told the honorary secretary that a rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea off Leasowe lighthouse with one man on board. At 5.35 the life-boat Edward and Mary...
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- culties three miles north-west of Hilbre Island. He went to the boathouse and through a...
Richard Thomas, of Belfast
On the 25th October the Christopher Ludlow Life-boat of this station was enabled to render valuable assistance to the brigantine Richard Thompson, of Belfast, which had •gone on Dungarvan Bar during a fresh breeze at S.S.W. The sea broke...
A Small Boat (1)
JUNE 9TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A small boat with three boys on board had capsized close to the boom defence, Isle of Sheppey. One boy reached the boom and got ashore. The other two could not be found. - Rewards, £8...
Victory
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 7.30 on the evening of the 16th of April, 1959, the signal station reported that red and white flares had been seen about one mile south of the pier heads. The life-boat Euphrosyne Kendal left her moorings at...
Cannibal
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.10 p.m. on 2nd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor boat Cannibal, which had broken down,was drifting with the strong flood tide and would very soon be ashore...
Brooke Marine
Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 187-1 NAMES Type 50ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0" Beam 14' 6" Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp. gallons Twin...
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Ross Lion
Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...
Finbar
Baltimore, Co. Cork. On the 6th of April, 1958, the fishing boat Finbar of Skibbereen, on passage from Baltimore to Clonakilty, broke down with engine trouble just outside Baltimore harbour.
She was drifting helplessly...
Eastbourne Life-Boat Lands An Injured Seaman
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