LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — While the fishing cobles were out on the 8th February, a strong breeze from the E.N.E. sprung up, the sea became very rough and the weather being thick it was feared that some casualty might happen. The Life-boat...
Perle
PORT ERROL.—On the night of the 24th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from S.E. to S. and a heavy surf was breaking on the beach, the schooner Perle, of Dunkirk, was driven ashore on the sands at Cruden Bay. The Life-boat Frances...
Angloman
HOLYHEAD, CEMAES and CEMLYN.— During a dense fog on the 9th February a large four-masted steamer, the Angloman, of and for Liverpool, with a general cargo and cattle, stranded on the West Flatters rocks. Fortunately the sea was smoothat the...
H.M. Mine Sweeper
H.M. Mine Sweeper • stranded on the Scroby Sands during a strong southerly gale on the 28th October. She made signals of distress, and in response the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched. While endeavouring to get near...
Fiducia
Caister, Norfolk.—At 5.50 on the morning of the 21st of July. 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Fiducia, of Rotterdam, was ashore on the mainland at Waxham, but as the weather was calm she did not need help. The Fiducia...
Jules Deyne and Fulham VIII
The Humber, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 20th November, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the coxswain superintendent that a cargo vessel and a trawler had been in collision and that the skipper of the trawler needed...
Estelle and Finola
Howth, Co. Dublin. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of August, 1958, the life-boat R.P.L. left her station for Malahide with twelve collectors for the local flag day on board. She arrived at 2.45, and a quarter of an hour later...
Pedalo Power
An eight-hour pedalo trip organised by the Aylsham and District branch, North Norfolk, raised £900 for lifeboats. Members and friends of the branch covered the 25-mile stretch along the River Bure. The sponsored event was supported by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (7)
On the 19th November, 1939, the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat rescued the crew of two of the smack Charlotte Ellen of Tollesbury, and the crew of two of the barge Lorna, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES R. ELLIS was awarded the...
Category: Articles
Shannon
WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it...