LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Help from America.
People in America have been only less generous than our own people overseas.
One donor, in Texas, has already sent £300 this year, and a lady in California has sent £49 because "she had been thrilled indeed...
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK. The honorary secretary heard a shout for help from a man swimming a long way from the shore in heavy breakers, and the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched at 1.27 P.M. When she reached the...
Reliant, of Penzance
Coverack, Cornwall - At 4.18 p.m.
on I4th December, 1966, it was reported that a boat was burning a distress signal about four miles south east of Coverack. The life-boat William Taylor of Oldham was launched at 4.30 in a...
Pump action
A trawler with a lone fisherman onboard got her nets caught in her propeller on 2 June off Cliffe Marshes. She then sustained damage and began to take on water as her skipper tried to clear the obstruction. Gravesend’s E class lifeboat Olive...
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APPENDICITIS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 4.50 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, the honorary secretary received a message from a doctor in Papa Westray that he had an acute appendicitis case requiring immediate hospital treatment. As no other vessel was...
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.54 p.m. on 28th October, 1965, a ship in the vicinity of Rough Towers reported having seen a distress signal from the Towers. It was further reported that a private radio transmitting station had asked for...
Lossiemouth Guild
Artist John Todd (I) admires some of the works on show at the exhibition he mounted for three days in October at the Lesser Town Hall, Lossiemouth. With him is another exhibitor, Mr McPherson who, along with all the other artists, agreed to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
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A Bathing Float (1)
T o r b a y, Devon.—6th September, 1938. A search was made for a boy reported to be missing on a bathing float, but he had got ashore.—Rewards, £2 3s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (118)
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
At 5.25 P.M. a telephone message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea near the East Last Buoy.
A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...