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A Looe Fishing Boat

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

DECEMBER 1 1TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.

A Looe fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she reached harbour unaided. - Rewards, £13 2s. 6d..

A Steamer (49)

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

DECEMBER 31ST. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. An unknown steamer had been torpedoed 12 miles north west of Horr Head, but she was towed to safety by a tug.- Rewards, £22 19s. 6d..

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: June 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 396

Mr. George Mason of the Cross Keys Hotel, Llandudno, filled his bar counters with daffodils on St. David's Day and asked all those who took one to make a contribution in the life-boat collecting box.

* * * * The girls...

Category: Donations

Spring Flower

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

Ilfracombe, Devon.—About noon on the 4th of August, 1957, a message was received that a yacht was in diffi- culties off Bull Point. Another yacht had tried to tow her but had failed to make headway and had cast off the tow and made for...

Mafalda

Date: October 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 347

Appledore, Devon.—At 5.15 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties eight miles north-east of Hart- land Point, and at 5.35 the motor life- boat The...

Olga

Date: June 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 376

Workington, Cumberland.—At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 25th of March, 1956, there was a telephone call reporting that a boat off Parton was in distress and that one of her crew was waving a white flag. At 3.15 the life-boat...

Prosperity

Date: November 1910

Volume: 21

Issue: 238

At 3 P.M.

on the 18th February a Life-boatman observed a vessel about three and a half miles out in a dismantled condition.

There was a moderate westerly breeze blowing and the sea was heavy. The Life-boat...

Cover Picture

Date: July 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 440

This animated photograph of the Flamborough, Yorkshire, life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise was taken by Mr. Arthur W. Dick, honorary secretary, Bridlington, in a westerly gale early in April An Inspector of Life-boats was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

None (3)

Date: June 1959

Volume: 35

Issue: 388

Barra Island, Hebrides. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1959, the local doctor re- quested the use of the life-boat to take the coxswain's son, who was seriously ill, to hospital at South Uist. The life-...

A Speed Boat

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

SPEEDBOAT BROKE DOWN Plymouth, Devon. At 6.43 p.m. on Kth April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a speedboat with one occupant had broken down half a mile south of their lookout. There was a gentle north-westerly breeze...