LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Testing of a New Life-Boat
IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...
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Boy David (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PALLING, NORFOLK. — On the 6th January, 1898, the coxswain of the Life-boat Hearts of Oak was informed that flares had been shown in the direc- tion of the Middle Happisburgh Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were at once...
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Tea-Up!'
Tea-up!' Andy Gibson uses an appropriate device to announce a tea break - no one can say they didn't hear this foghorn!. - View image in PDF
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A Story of a Coxswain
WRITTEN with a charm and delicacy comparable to that of Paul Gallico, The Morlo by L. A. Knight (John Murray, 12s. 6d.) is the delightful tale of Davy Tregaren, a life-boat coxswain, who is also a naturalist and farmer, and his affinity with...
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John Perry
CASTLETOWN, ISLE oi1 MAN.—It was reported, on the evening of the 2nd October, that a schooner in Derbyhaven was flying a flag of distress. The Hope Life-boat was launched at 6.30, and found the vessel, which proved to be the John Perry, of...
A Steamer
In response to signals of distress the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Matthew Simpson put to sea shortly after 4 A.M.
on the 10th November, to assist a motor-boat which was dragging her anchors. The motor-boat had anchored in...
Concordia
LYDD, KENT.—The David Hulett Lifeboat put off at 4.30 A.M. on the 2nd March to the assistance of the brigantine Concordia, of Guernsey, which had stranded on the sands about half a mile from the boathouse, and was showing signals of distress...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which...
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Yo-Ho-Ho!
Yo-ho-ho! Smugglers galore swarmed the countryside around Whimple and in hot pursuit was a determined band of excise men. The barrel-laden smugglers tiptoed their way over hill and down dale in a bid to reach the New Fountain Inn with their... - View image in PDF
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