LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. on duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.
On Saturday, March 17, Orpington branch set up a display in Wallnuts shopping centre and in a nine-hour stint raised £192. On duty when the photograph was taken were Mike Reynolds, chairman, and Ray Hemings, committee member.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yachtsman's Gratitude
THE following letter comes from a Cornish yachtsman.
"On the 16th of this month, I re- ceived assistance from the Cloughey life-boat, which had been sent out to stand by me by the coastguard.
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Category: Donations
A Boat (5)
DECEMBER 25TH. - LOWESTOFT SUFFOLK.
At 3.45 P.M. a man told the life-boat, coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties in the South Roads, and this was reported to the naval duty officer who kept the boat under...
A Speed Boat
5th October.
A speed boat caught fire and blew up.
Occupant picked up by a fishing boat.
—Rewards, £12 10s. 2d..
A Pilot Cutter's Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—23rd January.
A pilot cutter's boat had capsized, and a steamer had picked up one man. The other two had been drowned before help could reach them. The boat and rescued man were brought ashore by the...
A Motor Boat (3)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—22nd June.
A fishing party had gone out in a motor boat. It had broken down, but was towed in by another boat.—Rewards, £8 15s..
A Rowing Boat (6)
JULY 2ND. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
A rowing boat with a man aboard had been reported missing, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £16 11s. (See Porthoustock, "Services by Shore-boats,” page...
A Spitfire Aeroplane (3)
APRIL 14TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS ; THURSO, AND WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
A Spitfire aeroplane had been reported down in the Pentland Firth, but there was a dense fog and nothing could be found - Rewards : Longhope, £9 13s....
A Camouflaged Motor Launch
JANUARY 13TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A small vessel had been reported bumping on the rocks, but she was a camouflaged motor launch dropping depth charges while tracking an enemy submarine, and the life-boat was not...
The Liberty Ship Fort St. Paul, and The Admiralty Vessel Ben My Chree
JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...