LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guiding Star
The schooner Guiding Star, of Runcorn, while bound to Fisherow with a cargo of salt, became windbound when at anchor in Scrabster Roads, and on the 12th November a whole N.N.E. gale sprang up. The vessel, being in an ex- posed position,...
A Capital Idea
GORDON STABLES, Esq., M.D., E.N., of Twyford, Berkshire, the well-known author, in a letter published a short time since in The Stock-keeper and Fancier's Chronicle, made the following admirable suggestion, which we trust may be carried...
Category: Correspondence
Devotion
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1952, a fisherman at Burnmouth tele- phoned that the motor fishing boat Devotion, of Burnmouth, with a crew of four, was flying a distress signal three miles...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Oving- dean, and that her crew of two were clinging to her. At 6.35 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Some More Gifts
From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...
Category: Donations
Stockport Auxiliaries' 9-Ft. Life-Boat
MEMBERS of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries, led by Mr. Wallace L.
Barber, aged 60, of 19 Roxton Road, Heaton Chapel, Stockport, Lancashire, who founded the crew in 1937, have completed a model of a 37-foot...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty of Galway Bay, a holder of the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 25th of October, 1957. He received his medal for an outstanding service in August 1938, when the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Nogi, which...
Category: Obituaries
William and Edwin
ROCKETS FIRED Hastings, Sussex. At 2.47 a.m. on nth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small craft had fired red rockets from a position three miles south-east of the coastguard station.
At 3.4,...
A Dinghy (1)
PILOT CUTTER'S REPORT At 8.14 p.m. on 4th September, 1964, .the coastguard told the honorary secretary that Nab pilot cutter had reported a dinghy adrift but was unable to help.
It was two hours before high water with...
None (2)
HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a...