LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Good-Bye to a Life-Boat By R W Frazer
WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
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A Fishing Boat (2)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.5 P.M.
on the 29th April, 1938, a message was received from the pierhead that a small open fishing boat was in distress off South Shoebury Buoy. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The...
A Sailing Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.40on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a sailing dinghy, with two children on board, had capsized half a mile off shore opposite King's Drive,...
A Dinghy (1)
AUGUST 31ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At 5.40 in the afternoon the commanding officer of a local army unit reported that one of his officers, and a bombardier, had gone out for a sail in a dinghy, but appeared to be in...
Pallion, of Sunderland
The last service rendered at the Caister Life-boat station in 1872 was that on the 10th Dec., by the Boys Life-boat, when she proceeded out, during a gale from E.N.E., to the aid of the brig Pallion, of Sunderland, which had been fouled by...
A Boat (2)
Ramsgate, Kent - At 5.47 p.m. on 29th October, 1967, the Deal coast-guard informed the life-boat coxswain that a small boat near the entrance to the river Stour needed help. The life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings at 6.5 in...
Englebert
During a moderate W.S.W. gale, accompanied by thunder, lightning and very heavy rain, on the 28th August, a vessel was pro- ceeding up the Solway Firth, and she was kept under observation. About 8 P.M. it was seen that a signal of dis- tress...
A Motor Boat (1)
Cromarty.—30th November. A motor boat was in distress off Brora some thirty miles to the north, in a whole N.W. gale, but was taken in tow by a fishery cruiser. The life-boat's mast broke as she was running under sail before the gale....
A Liberator Aeroplane (1)
MAY 17TH. - MONTROSE, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. A vessel had been reported on fire. It was a Liberator aeroplane which had crashed in the sea. A naval launch arrived first and picked up two bodies. The Arbroath life-boat did not launch, but her...
A Small Sailing Boat
20th August.
A small sailing boat was reported in distress, but made harbour safely.— Rewards, £6 18s..