LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ancient Life-Belt
WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. R. EARP, of Austin Friars, for the follow- ing very quaint and interesting descrip- tion of a method of constructing a life-belt, extracted by him from an old Black Letter book published nearly three...
Category: Articles
Fryken
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 10.5 on the night of the 24th of September, 1949, in dense fog, the coastguard telephoned that he thought the motor vessel Fryken, of Kristinehamm, Sweden, was on the rocks near the Heugh lighthouse; and at 10.35 the...
Mrs Mary Cavell,
October 1995 Mrs Mary Cavell, founder member of the Goodwin Sands and Downs Ladies' lifeboat guild, became the first honorary secretary of the guild in 1952 until 1972 when she remained at committee member until 1983. She was awarded the...
Category: Obituaries
Isabella Heron, of Blyth
During a strong gale from the S.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, on the morning of the 16th March, the George Houn&field Life-boat put off and succeeded in taking into Harwich harbour the distressed brigantine Isabella Heron, of Blyth, and...
Mazurka, of Dundee
Early on the morning of the 9th March, signals of dis- tress were seen binning in the direction of the Cross Sand. The alarm was at once given, and the Winterton life-boat was con- veyed along the beach and launched; but the wind and sea...