LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Atlantic Storm and Rescue
THE accompanying graphic narrative of a fearful storm and a noble rescue in mid-Atlantic appeared some months ago in the Daily Telegraph under the signature of " Seafarer." No one can read this in- teresting account without feeling...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck...
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Arielle
Filey, Yorkshire. —At 10.57 on the morning of the 17th of August, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that the motor cruiser Arielle, of Leith, had broken down five miles east-north-east of Filey Brigg, and at 11.10 the life- boat The Cuttle was...
A Small Boat Named Joan
The motor life- boat City of Bradford I, on relief duty at this station, was launched at 8.25 A.M. on the 14th May, as the second motor mechanic had seen a small boat in danger about three and a half miles S.S.W. of the look-out. A strong...
Patriot
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—• During the afternoon of the 19th September, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Patriot went to the Blackwater Light-vessel to fetch a man ashore.
As, when she was due to return, a strong...
Blue Peter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.43 on the afternoon of the 18th of June 1954, a message was received from the coastguard that a tanker had reported a yacht apparently broken down off Nore Towers. At 4.5 the life-boat The Lord Southborough,...
A Sailing Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched for a routine exercise with the honorary secretary, Mr. C. A. Perry, on...
Alisdair
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At about 7.45 on the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a vessel aground two and a half miles north-north-west of Donna Nook, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tem- porary duty at the...
Happy Aggie
Plymouth, Devon - At 8.2 p.m. on 6th August, 1967, the coastguard toldthe honorary secretary that two people were cut off by the tide at Freathy. The IRB was launched at 8.15. The life-boat Lloyd's, on temporary duty at the station,...
Lascar
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.30 on the morn- ing of the 4th of March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been sighted six to seven miles north-east of Kildonan Point. At 4.10, when the life-boat Charlotte Eliza-...