LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Small Boats
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At midnight on the 17th of June, 1954, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported seeing two small boats, each with two men on board, off Bispham. The men were said to be shouting for help. At 12...
Roma
JUNE 11TH. - FLEETWOOD: LANCASHIRE.
At 1.30 P.M. the lighthousekeeper reported that a small motor boat was aground on the east side of the Wyre Channel. A strong N.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea. Two other motor...
Coxswain Rawcliffe of Fleetwood
COXSWAIX HERBERT RAWCLIFFE, who was appointed coxswain of the Fleet- wood life-boat on the 1st of January.
1954. lost his life in February in an accident at sea in the course of his duties as a Trinity House pilot.
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF SURVEY VESSEL Cromer, Norfolk. At 9.45 on the evening of the 2nd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that H.M.S. Scott, one of the survey vessels of the Royal Navy, had requested a doctor and ambulance to...
Sharon's Rose
WELLS, NORFOLK.—The brig Sharon's Rose, of Whitby, bound from Shields to Dieppe with coal, was seen to run on the beach at Holkham, during a strong breeze from N.N.E. and a very heavy sea, at about 1 P.M. on the 29th October. The Eliza...
Catherine
The Sisters' Memorial life-boat on this station was called out on service on the 4th November, the Dutch brigantine Catharina driving ashore and becoming a total wreck in Llandudno Bay on that day in a strong gale from the N.N.W. and a...
Micronesia
On the 7th June the Life-boat was again called out. and proceeded to the aid of the ship Micronesia, of Liverpool, which had her cargo of nitrate on fire.
Two steam-tugs and a Deal galley were in attendance on the vessel,...
Beatrix, of Whitby
The life-boat Letitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her mainmast cut; away, during a...
The S.S. Turrethill
— On the 13th May the s.s. Turrethill, of Newcastle- on - Tyne, whilst bound from Goole with a cargo of coal to Poole, Dorset- shire, capsized when off Southwold. A strong W.N.W. wind was blowing at the time, with a rough sea, and unhappily...
Cragoswald
The steamer Cragoswald, of Newcastle, whilst bound from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal, and carrying twenty-seven hands, stranded on the Low Lee Rock in Mount's Bay, in fine weather on the 29th April. The Life-boat Elizabeth and...