LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wicklow Lifeboat Station Has a 42Ft Watson Class Lifeboat
Wicklow lifeboat station has a 42ft Watson class lifeboat and has launched on service eight times in 1986. The honorary secretary, Michael Jones (far r), a local chartered accountant and experienced yachtsman, will often receive calls for... - View image in PDF
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The French Ketch Notre Dame De France
At 11.19 A.M., on the 10th February, the Coastguard reported that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Oxwich Point, and that a steamer was endeavour- ing to assist her, but that there was too much sea. The Coxswain having pro- cured...
The Auxiliary Barge Pudge
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 24th of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the auxiliary barge Pudge, of London, which had a crew of two, had gone aground half a mile south of Saltfleet Haven. The...
A Steamer
Appledore, Devon. — 9th April. A steamer was disabled with a burst boiler, but was taken in tow by another steamer.—Rewards, £10 Os. 9d..
A Yacht
JULY 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A yacht had been reported in distress, but she was taken in tow by a trawler. - Rewards, £8 10s..
A Trawler
MARCH 31ST ST. ABBS , BERWICK - SHIRE. A trawler had been seen flying a distress signal, but she did not need help and hauled down her signal. - Rewards, £9 7s.
A Raft
JANUARY 20TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. A raft with two men on board had been reported missing after a motor vessel had been sunk in collision, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £6 17s..
Mr Hore Belisha (I) With Acting Coxswain H E Pow of Appledore Bronze Medallist at the 1935 AGM
Mr Hore Belisha (I) with Acting Coxswain H. E. Pow of Appledore a bronze medallist at the 1935 A.G.M.. - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 5.37 in the morning of the 20th of October, 1951, the North Goodwin Lightvessel wire- lessed that she had launched a boat to pick up a boy in a dinghy which had drifted past the lightvessel, but that both boats were now...
A Canoe
CANOE RECOVERED AFTER GIRL IS SAVED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th June, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a canoe with a boy in it had capsized off...