LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aurea and Bacarole
Survivor snatched from yacht seconds before she sinks A service in very difficult weather conditions, carried out in full view of hundreds of local people and holiday-makers on the shore, has earned Barry Bennett, the coxswain of St Mary'...
The Phillip Rex
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Just after seven o'clock in the evening of the 9th of August, 1948, the Withernsea coast- guard reported a small motor yacht in difficulties two miles south of Withern- sea, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford...
Articles Held Over
OWING to lack of space the following articles and reports are held over until the next issue: " Memories of the Sea and the Life-boat Service," by Mr.
Ernest Woolfield, Honorary Secretary of the Kessingland...
Category: Articles
Pippa
Dungeness, Kent. At 2.25 on the morning of the 17th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a German ship was standing by a British yacht, which had burnt red flares and had asked for the help of the life-boat. At...
Vrede (1)
ATTEMPTING TO SALVE A DUTCH STEAMER The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—At about 10.30 in the morning of February 21st, 1947, the master of the motor vessel Vrede, of Rotterdam, which had gone ashore four miles...
Mrs Grace Agate
Mrs Grace Agate, president of Aldeburgh Ladies' guild from 1965 until her death. In 1966 she was elected chairman but had to retire from this post in 1987 due to ill health. Mrs Agate was awarded a silver badge in 1977 and a gold badge...
Category: Obituaries
None (1)
On the after- noon of 28th May three boys were on the cliffs at Howth Head looking for birds' nests, when one of them slipped and fell about fifty feet into the sea.
One of his companions, a boy of ten, pluckily...
St Patrick, of Bangor
On the 26th January the smack St. Patrick, of Bangor, was observed flying signals of distress at anchor in Red Wharf Bay, the wind blowing a gale from S.S.W. The life-boat at Moelfre was immediately launched to her aid, and found that she...
A Dinghy and Team
At 11.30 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, news was received that a small dinghy had broken down one and a half miles off shore. The IRB was launched and the coastguard then reported that a red flare had been sighted from another boat. The IRB -was...
Helping Hand, of Lowestoft
DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...