LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. On her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes the new Mallaig life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin was making the passage from Donaghadee to Campbeltown on the 25th of October, 1957, when a May Day...
John and Ann
At midnight on the 12th November it was reported that a vessel had gone on the Long Bock. The Life-boat's crew were summoned, and the boat proceeded to the vessel and brought ashore her crew of three men. She proved to be the schooner...
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ST. DAVID'S, PEMBKOKESHIBK.—At about midnight on the 27th May, rockets were fired from the South Bishops Lighthouse.
The crew of the Augusta Life-boat were summoned; the boat was launched, and on reaching the lighthouse...
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HILBRE ISLAND, CHESHIRE —It having been reported that some of the boats engaged in cockle-fishing were in a dangerous position on the West Hoyle bank on the 2nd May, the Life-boat Admiral Briggs was launched at 4.25 P.M., and in two trips...
A Canoe
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
Fishing Boats (3)
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. — On the morning of the 24th March, 1939, a heavy sea was rising, with a strong and increasing south-easterly wind. Two small fishing boats were out and shortly before noon it was reported that one of them was...
A Dinghy (1)
Dover, Kent - At 3.30 p.m. on 15th May, 1968, while the life-boat Faithful Forester was on exercise, a dinghy was seen to capsize throwing two men into the water. There was a moderate breeze from the south west and a corresponding sea. It...
Primrose
Workington, Cumberland. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a fishing boat was firing red flares one mile south of Workington pier. The life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX...
Wisp
SEPT. 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. The coastguard reported that the sailing yacht Wisp, of Shoreham, had capsized about one and a half miles to the southward of the harbour entrance. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rather...
Charles H. Marshall
At 10 o'clock on the same morning a vessel having been seen on the Brake Sand, the Bradford Life-boat again went out in tow of the steamer to render assistance if required. With the help of the steam-tug Challenger, the ship was towed...