LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (2)
BOY AND YACHT IN DOUBLE RESCUE Lowestoft, Suffolk. The honorary secretary received a report from the coastguard during the afternoon of Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, that a boy was drowning off Pakefield beach. The lifeboat Frederick Edward...
Margaret Wicks
BY BREECHES BUOY Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 3.17 a.m.
on 8th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the trawler Margaret Wicks,of Fleetwood, was ashore on the Mull of Oa. There was a fresh...
Fidra
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.39 on the morning of the 30th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been received from the motor vessel Fidra of Leith that one of her crew was in pain with...
An Eggs-Tra Special Gift
The £20,000 Faberge-style egg has finally found a home with the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in London. It is especially appropriate as the egg contains a model of the City of London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coaster Escort
The photograph, courtesy RAF Mansion,shows the ship's predicament and the diminutive size of Eastbourne's Mersey class Royal Thames when viewed from the air in gale force conditions.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
APRIL 1ST. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. An R.A.F. aeroplane had come down into the sea very near the shore, but the help of the life-boat was not needed. - Rewards, £8 0S. 6d..
Providentia, of Svelig
On the 24th March, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the brig Providentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen, while running for the South Harbour, struck on the rocks near the entrance. As soon as the vessel was seen making for the land, the...
Lady Westmoreland, of Newcastle
On the 1st February the barque Lady West- moreland,of Newcastle, owing to the darkness and thick weather, grounded in a high sea on a dangerous shoal near the Church Bock, inside the Nab Light. As the tide rose she bumped heavily and started...
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JUNE 7TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. A request was received from the principal light-keeper at Tuskar Rock for the life-boat to bring ashore a sick man from the light-house. A very strong southwest gale was blowing, with a very rough...
Gallant Life-Boat Services In 1899
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.
AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.
At...
Category: Services