LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Perseus
In response to a telephone message from Thorpeness on the 17th September the No. 1 Life-boat City of Winchester was launched, great difficulty being experienced in getting the boat afloat owing to the heavy sea running and the bad state of...
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Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 12th of November, 1955, the Tynemoutb.
police rang up to ask if the life-boat would pick up the body of a man which was in the sea off Tynemouth north pier....
Philomena
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 4.58 on the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1957, the coastguard told the coxswain that a dinghy had capsized two hundred yards off shore opposite the Grand Hotel at Frinton. The life- boat Edian Courtauld put...
Heinrich Gerdes, of Rostock
On the 22d March the schooner Heinrkh Gerdes, of Rostock, on running for the harbour of Berwick, struck on the bar, and was driven ashore south of the entrance to the Tweed. It was blowing a heavy gale from east-north-east, and there was a...
F. Edwards
On the 14th November, at 4.30 A.M., the No. 1 Life-boat was launched, in reply to signals of distress, shown in the direction of the Middle Cross Sand. She sailed towards the sand, and met a boat containing 5 men, the crew of the schooner F....
Eliza
BURNHAM, SOMERSETSHIRE. — Intelligence having been received that the schooner Eliza, of Bridgwater, 69 tons, bound for Cardiff with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of three men, had sunk on the Gore Sands, the crew of the Lifeboat...
Affiance
The fishing-boat Affiance, of St. Ives, whilst bound for the fishing-grounds oil the 28th July, stranded on the Fame Islands, the weather being line and the sea smooth at the time. In response to her signals of distress, the Life-boat Thomas...
Adele
At 4.20 A.M. on the 22nd August, a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse stating that a vessel was ashore on the sand. Rockets were fired to assemble the crew, and within thirteen minutes the Life-boat James Stevens No....
Azha
On 13th November the Life-boat Samuel Lewis rescued the crew of the brig Azha, of Arendal. (For particulars, see p. 35)..
Lady Dorcas
The No. 1 Life-boat Sarah Jane Turner was launched at 7.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, in answer to distress signals from a vessel to the north of the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat reached the vessel at 8.10 P.M., and found that she was...