LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A Trawler (2)
NOVEMBER 5TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. A trawler had struck a rock and had sunk off Cape Clear Island, but the five survivors of the crew of eleven were rescued by people on the island. - Rewards, £9...
A Fishing Boat (3)
AUGUST 6TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
A fishing boat had been reported missing, but she was found by the Malin Head auxiliary rescue-boat. - Rewards, £5 1s. (See Malin Head, “Services by Auxiliary Rescueboats,” page 68.)...
Contents
Contents Volume XLIX Number 493 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ...
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Jonah
WEXFORD.—Signals of distress were observed at midnight on the 8th May, from a vessel which had stranded on the Dogger Bank. The wind was blowing from the E.N.E. at the time, and the sea was rough. The Ethel JEveleen Life-boat promptly...
Obituary
WE regret to report the death from wounds of SERGEANT CHARLES DIXON, assistant messenger at the house of the Institution. Sergeant Dixon was a Reservist of the Guards and was called up at the outbreak of war. He was twice wounded, the second...
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The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me and Success
The local motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Success put to sea early on the morning of the 5th December in moderate weather. Later the wind and sea rose, and as it had been raining heavily since the previous night, the river was running...
Two Small Boats
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At midnight on the 17th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported seeing two small boats, each with two men on board, off Bispham. The men were said to be shouting for help. At 12...
The Ex-Trinity House Launch Upway
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 21st October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat appeared to be drifting north with the ebb tide. As a boat with two people on board had been...
A Boat (1)
Swanage, Dorset - At 7.24 a.m. on 7th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat was in difficulties 150 yards offshore opposite the Grand Hotel. The life-boat R.L.P. was launched at 7.45 in a fresh south...