LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Fishing Drifters and The Scottish Drifter Coreopsis
NOVEMBER 5TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 11.17 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard reported a fishing drifter ashore a quarter of a mile south of the look-out. A light southsouth- east breeze was blowing and the sea was...
The S.S. Lady Katherine
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Trojan Star
Blyth, Northumberland. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 4th of Jan- uary. 1957. the coastguard telephoned to say the North Seaton police had re- ported that the fishing boat Trojan Star.
with a crew of two. had put...
The Danish Schooner The Mogens Koch
Newhaven (Sussex).
On 7th December, the day on which the gales reached their height, the Newhaven Motor Life-boat was called out just before 7.30 in the morning to the help of a Danish schooner, the Mogens Koch, which had...
Top: Bembridge Lifeboat Coxswain, Martin Woodward.
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Category: Photographs
A light in the Darkness
Tonnes of timber were heaped along the English south coast last Winter – but what became of the cargo ship’s crew? Carol Waterkeyn hears the full story of Ice Prince, the men who went to her aid, and the RNLI’s first Silver Medal for 3...
Category: Articles
The Destruction of the Scarborough Life-Boat
IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...
Category: Articles
Vellum Accorded to National Trust Warden
ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...
Category: Awards
The Record of 1927. A Year of Conspicuous Services
A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
Category: Annual Reports
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 3.
Aith, Shetland July 13 and August 5.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 4, 7, July 8, 19 and August 17.
Amble, Northumberland June 20, July 24, August 4, 14 and...
Category: Services