LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

THE MEN OF THE MUMBLES HEAD Carl Smith A Pictorial Story of The Mumbles Life-boat from 1832 to the present day.

Available in: Case-bound £3.50 Limp-cover £1.95 ISBN 85088 384 9 8±" x 7± 86 pages, 56...

Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 6.30 in the morning of the 25th of March, 1948, information was received from Dyffryn that two men had landed in a dinghy from the French fishing vessel Va-Sans-Peur, of Concarneau, bound for Liverpool, and had...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 2.11 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1956, the Needles coastguard reported that a small yacht was in distress four miles south-south-west of St. Cather- ine's. The life-boat S.G.E. put out at 2.33....

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 11.5 on the morning of the 21st of August, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a trawler had engine trouble between no. 2 and no. 3 buoys eight miles off Tenby. The life-boat Henry Comber Brown was...

Holyhead, Anglesey.—At 1.22 in the morning of 9th April, 1939, the coastguard reported that the 7,000-tons s.s.

Hilary, of Liverpool, was ashore at Carmel Head. She was homeward bound from Brazil to Liverpool with general...

Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—About 5.35 on the afternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, a man informed the coxswain that he had seen from Cradder Head a steamer aground on the Calf of Man. At 5.55 the life-boat Matthew Simpson was...

CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the 10th December the Caister No. 2 Life-boat, the Godsend, put off at 2 P.M., and remained by the steamer Watford, of Sunderland, laden with iron ore from Bilbao for Stockton, which had stranded on the North Barber Sand...

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Otmerte.— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....