The day bells sang out for Blogg's boys Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed one of the finest hours of Cromer lif eboatmen — led by the renowned Coxswain Henry Blogg.
At 0400 on 13 December 1933,...
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The full-rigged ship Maxwell, 1,800 tons, of Liverpool, left that port on the morning of the 19th July, bound for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. She was towed by the steam-tug Great Western and, on arriving near the North-West...
ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...
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BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON Dec. 2ND. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 12.14 in the morning a message from the coastguard reached the lifeboat station of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston that...
On the 28th Jan.
the schooner James, of Carnarvon, was wrecked near the bar of Drogheda Harbour, in a S.E. gale. The two Drogheda Life- boats launched to her assistance, and 1 man was rescued by the South boat, the John...
CULLERCOATS. — The Life-boat Co- Operator No. 1 was launched to the assistance of the coble Thistle which was in danger while returning from the fishing grounds in a moderate wind from E. by N. and a rough sea, on the morning of the 3rd...
DOVER.—Signals of distress were fired by the light-vessel moored off the works in progress at the Admiralty pier, on the night of the 16th May .while a strong breeze was blowing from N.E. The Life-boat, Lewis Morice, was launched at 10.15,...
On the 24th March the sea was very heavy from the early morning, and the coble Two Brothers, of North Sunderland, was the only one to go out, her lines having been shot overnight, and the crew were very anxious to get them. About noon the...
TYRELLA, Co. DOWN.—At 2 A.M. on the 30th September signals of distress were observed in Dnndrum Bay, about a mile S.S.W. of the Craigalea Bocks. The wind was blowing from the S., the weather was thick and hazy, and there was a heavy ground...
At 9 A.M. on | the 14th November, during a moderate North-westerly gale and rough sea, the ashing-boat Rosalie, of Minehead, was observed in distress about two miles to the eastward of Minehead. The crew of the Life-boat George Leicester...