LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (22)
DECEMBER 5TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
A fishing boat had been reported in difficulties, but she reached Port Isaac under her own power. - Rewards, £4 8s..
Fiona
St. Helier, Jersey.—At six o'clock on the evening of the 28th of April, 1953, the harbourmaster rang up to say that the owner of the local fishing boat Fiona had reported that the boat was overdue with a crew of two, and that he felt...
September
Launches 31 Lives rescued 13 SEPTEMBER 1ST. -
COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of...
Category: Services
Two Irish Rescues By Night. Wicklow and Dunmore East
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1951 - 77,296 Two Irish Rescues by Night Wicklow and Dunmore East AT half-past...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
FIGURES already available show that the year 1958 has been similar to the two preceding years in the demands made on life-boat crews. When a record figure for peacetime of 745 launches on service was established in 1956, this seemed an...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1954 79,058 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1954 has been one on which the Life-boat...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and Salvage
ALTHOUGH, in the course of its 127 years of work the Institution has saved, or helped to save, thousands of vessels from destruction, it makes no claims for salvage. Its sole purpose is the rescue of life. When, however, life- boats are able...
Category: Articles
Focus on Lytham-St. Anne's
IT is doubtful whether any other life-boat station in the British Isles could claim such a beginning. For the Lytham-St. Anne's station, in Lancashire, which is responsible for a conventional life-boat, an IRB, a tractor and two boarding...
Category: Articles
Contents
Notes of the Quarter by the Editor 237 International Boat Show 239 T T - I VT TTT It was a Dark and Stormy Night ... by Jilly Cooper 240 Number 450 Lifeboat Stamps 242 A Year of Endeavour 243 48 Hours of Gale 248 Chairman: Lifeboat...
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Ethel Edith
On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...