LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 24th of April, 1952, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
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Category: Articles
The Gorton Lightvessel
LANDED SICK MAN At 6.15 p.m. the following day a superintendent of Trinity House requested that a sick man be landed from Gorton lightvessel. The man needed medical attention and no other suitable boat was available. It was nearly low...
The Finnish Steamer Brita
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CORK The Finnish steamer Brita had been torpedoed and abandoned by her crew fifty miles south of Cape Clear. The life-boat searched widely for the crew but could not find them and later it...
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The Life-Saving Crew
THE storm rages fierce, the billows roll high, Now lashing the shore and then kissing the sky, 'Mid wild supplication of agonized prayer, Whilst cries ring the air, now from lips in despair - Hark I the life-saving crew, The life-saving...
Category: Poetry
The Finnish Steamer Otava
On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....
The Sailing Boat Taw
Ilfracombe, Devon. At 4.57 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sailing boat had capsized off Combe Martin. At 5.23 the life- boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...
The Sailing Boat Sarah
Wicklow.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 17th of August, 1954, a man at Arklow rang up to say that the 24-feet sailing boat Sarah, of Wicklow, had left Arklow for Wicklow earlier in the day with four men on board. At 7.30 the Wicklow Head...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 20th of January, 1955, the Commissioners of Irish Lights reported that the father of the fog signalman on the Black- water lightvessel had died in Wexford and asked if the...