LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (3)
Some of the fishing cobles having gone to sea on the 22nd April in a moderate E.S.E. wind, it was seen about noon that the rough sea and outgoing tide would render their return dangerous. The No. 1 Life-boat Robert and Mary Ellis accord-...
Dare
CAISTER, NORFOLK.-—At 2.30 A.M. on the 26th January, during a heavy gale from the .8. to S.W., a steam vessel was seen to get on the North Barber Sand.
The crew of the Life-boat were called together, and the No. 1 Life-boat...
Fishing Boats and Hall Mark
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, a heavy gale sprang up from the south bringing a rough sea and rain squalls.
The fishing fleet was at sea. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched...
Sapphire, of Glasgow
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Sidney Smith
.—-The Schooner Sidney Smith, of Portmadoc, whilst bound from Spain to Bristol with a cargo of iron ore, stranded at the mouth of Bantham Harbour, in foggy weather, early in the morning of the 25th March. Information of the disaster was...
Wells IRB Helping a Norwich Couple In Trouble When Their Sailing Boat Capsized at Blakeney Norfolk
Wells IRB helping a Norwich couple in trouble when their sailing boat capsized at Blakeney, Norfolk, on 31st August, 1968. A member of the IRB crew, Mr. Tony Pulford, has gone overboard to assist.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John Watt
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—At 2.27 in the morning of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel to the eastward was making S.O.S. signals on her syren. The motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield was launched at 3.30...
Willowpool (1)
DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...
Mrs Esme Walford MBE
Mrs Esme Walford MBE - Life Governor and Sevenoaks and District branch former President.
Category: Obituaries
Tomasina
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in the Solent between Lymington Spit buoy and Fort Albert. The life- boat...