LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Help from Overseas
THE honorary secretary of the Bexhill- on-Sea branch recently sent out a personal appeal to his own friends.
The result was nearly £21, and subscrip- tions came to him from as far afield as Switzerland, India and...
Category: Donations
A Sailing Vessel
Margate, Kent.—28th September. A sailing vessel was reported, by an airliner, to be in distress, but nothing could be found.—Rewards, £5 15*. Gd..
A Rubber Dinghy
MAY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. Two boys in a rubber dinghy were missing, but they were picked up by an air-sea rescue launch. - Rewards, £17 8s..
Seventy Pounds from the "Sea Microcosm."
IN The Lifeboat for June, 1929, it was announced that Dorothy Una Ratcliffe- Brotherton, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., of Leeds, had very kindly decided to devote the gross profits of the current number of her literary and artistic magazine, The...
Category: Donations
Dimcyl
Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 9th of August, 1951, the life-boat Jose Neville was launched on a pub- licity trip to the Broads for Festival Life-boat Week. A moderate, but increasing swell was running with a moderate...
Children's Book Recommended
Miss Mary F. Moore has managed to convey a remarkable amount of valuable information about life-boats, coastguards, lighthouses and light-ves- sels in a very easily readable form in her Life-boats and Lifesaving (Macmillan,...
Category: Articles
Minerva, of Workington
On the 7th February, the brig Minerva, of Workington, coal laden, ran ashore in a strong E.S.E. wind, on the South Bull Sand, at the mouth of the River Boyne.
The Drogheda life-boat proceeded to her assistance, and taking...
Black-Eyed Susan
At 11 A.M., the Life-boat again went out, and rescued the crew of five men from the schooner Slack-Eyed Susan, of Bideford, which had also gone ashore, and subsequently broke up. The Life-boat had to be pulled with great difficulty along the...
Our Confidence
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 29th of October, 1958, a message was received from a local fisherman that the fishing boat Our Confidence of Bridlington needed help six miles north-east of Flam- borough Head. The...
Ramrod
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 4.1 p.m. on 5th June, 1966, a woman reported a yacht about one and a halfmiles off shore, which appeared to be out of control, with a man hanging over the stern. The life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at...