LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Widow's Bequest
DURING a service in the war, on the 26th of October, 1941, the coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, and four of his crew were washed overboard. All five were picked up. The last of them was the signalman, Edward Walter...
Category: Donations
To the Rescue of a London Barge at Walton-on-Naze
THE barges Esterel and Yampa, of London, were on their way from London to Norwich with cargoes of maize on the 4th November, 1939.
When nearly opposite Orfordness they were caught by an easterly gale. Both barges turned...
Category: Services
The last crew of Greencastle
The last crew of Greencastle. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Town & Country Driveways Ltd
“WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL”. Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, it’s beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a...
Category: Advertisement
The M.V Summer Isle
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.25 p.m. on 3ist March, 1967, the m.v.
Summer Isle reported that she wished to hand over a body which had been recovered from the sea. She was making for Nab tower. The life-boat Jesse Lumb...
Silver City
During a whole S. W.
gale on the 6th December information j was received that a vessel coming up the j roads was flying signals for assistance.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat, Civil Ser- vice No. 1, were...
Betsy Nora
Torbay, Devon.—At 7.49 on the even- ing of the llth of September, 1954, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that red flares could be seen coming from a motor boat a quarter of a mile east of Great Rock. At eight o'clock the life-boat...
Ocean Lover
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.55 in the morning a message was received from the naval control for food to be taken to the drifter Ocean Lover, which had been lying a mile east of the boom for four days owing to thick fog...
The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
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PATIENT'S URGENT NEED At 2.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that a patient urgently needed an operation at a mainland hospital. The weather was too poor for the air ambulance service to operate...