(See the Life-boat, vol. XXXIII, page 334.). - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 31ST. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 8.5 at night the Portpatrick coastguard reported a fishing vessel making distress signals off the Isle of Whithorn. A strong southerly breeze was blowing, with heavy rain. The sea was very rough. The motor...
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...
THE secretary of the Institution would like to repeat the appeal made in the last issue of The Life-boat for volunteers from Greater London to help to develop the Institution's work in the East End by forming an East End branch, in-...
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DOCTOR'S BOLD JUMP MR. D. j. REEVES, the staff coxswain of the Clovelly, North Devon, life-boat Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), a 70-foot steel boat, was told by Hartland Coastguard on 7th November, 1971,...
Mr. Herbert Morrison, M.P., Minister of Transport, contributing to the Life-boat Collecting Box on the Brighton Front, during the Labour Party Conference, at which he presided,. - View image in PDF
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JANUARY 19TH. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 A.M. information was given by an incoming trawler that the mast and sail of a vessel could be seen above water about a mile west of Wyre Lighthouse. A southerly wind was...
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.20 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1956, the coastguard reported that the tanker Tank Queen, of Oslo, had anchored off Southend in dense fog and needed a doctor. One of her deck boys was thought to have...
The Lifeboat visits one of the RNLI's 233 lifeboat stations. - View image in PDF
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