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On the 10th May some men from Bryher on their way home noticed four men ashore on Mincarlo, a small island south-west of Bryher, apparently without a boat. A moderate N.N.W. breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. They went close and found...
On Fire
The Cardiff steamer Porthcawl, from which the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rescued twenty-five men on 14th September. - View image in PDF
This photograph was taken from the air. (See page 162.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Giant Marrow's Help
A GIFT of seven shillings has been received from the Isle of Wight.
It is the proceeds of a penny com- petition for guessing the weight of a marrow, grown in a garden at Shanklin, which, weighed twenty-nine,...
Category: Donations
Provider, Success and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The" local motor fishing boats Provider, Success and Pilot Me put out at 4 A.M. on the 24th February, in a nasty sea. At $ A.M. a thick fog settled, and, as the sea was making, the motor life-boat Margaret Harker...
A Fishing Boat (1)
Peel and Port Erin, Isle of Man.—• 23rd July. A fishing boat had not returned to Peel with the fleet, but she was found by a trawler which joined the life-boats in the search.—Rewards, Peel, £10 4s. 6d; Port Erin, £7 2s..
A Steamer (3)
Anstruther, Fifeshire— 16th December.
A steamer had grounded in West Bay, Elie, but the life-boat found the crew being rescued by the coastguard's lifesaving apparatus.—Rewards, £14 Os. 6d..
£18 from Photographs
THE Crewe Photographic Society held a two-days exhibition in April. Two thousand people came to see it. No charge was made, but life-boat collecting boxes were placed in the exhibition.
The sum of £18 10,?. 4d. was...
Category: Donations
Santa Maria
On the 27th of September, 1951, the St. Helier life-boat towed in a French yacht and her crew of three.
For a full account of this service, and the rewards, see page 280..
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1951, the Zetland medical officer for health asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to Fair Isle to treat a sick man, as the regular mail boat was under- going repairs....
A Trawler (3)
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—7th February.
A trawler had stranded, but one of her crew went ashore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus with the information that the crew intended to stay on board.—Rewards, £17 12s....