LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
George and Margaret
NEWBIGGIN. — During a gale of wind from the S.E., and a heavy sea, on the 29th May, the coble George and Margaret, of Newbiggin, while making for the shore was struck by a high sea, and at once foundered, about half a mile E. of Church Point...
Corsair
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—On the evening of the 13th October, a vessel, which proved to be the trawler Corsair, of Calais, was seen stranded on the Caister shoal. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 7.45 and proceeded to the spot. In rounding...
Frederica
On the 2nd November, when the dense thickness which had prevailed during the early part of the morning cleared, a steamer was observed ashore on the Button rocks. The Life-boat was very promptly launched and found the vessel was the...
Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the morning of the 15th April seventeen of the fishing cobles were out, chiefly engaged with the crab pots, when the sea began to rise. Six of the boats returned before the sea leached its height, one of these...
White Rose
On the afternoon of the 29th December, 1932, it was learned that all the fishing boats had returned to harbour with the exception of the smallest, the White Rose. As the sea was rough with a moderate S.S.E.
breeze, the...
Sepoy
.—On the 13th Decem- ber the barge Sepoy, of Dover, was wrecked off Cromer. Both the Cromer life-boats went to her help and the motor life-boat rescued the crew of two.
—Rewards to the crew of the motor life-boat, bar to...
Fishing Boats (2)
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 8 o'clock in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard re- ported that ten local fishing boats were at sea and that the weather was getting worse, and the life-boat Tittie Morrison, Sheffield,...
Thankful II
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 11.52 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing coble Thankful II had broken down four miles north of Seaham. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin...
Mr. Jack Hawkes
With the passing a few weeks ago of Mr. Jack Hawkes, of Ramsgate, the R,N.L.I. has lost one of the few remaining life-boatmen who could claim to have taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He was among the crew of the Ramsgate life...
Category: Obituaries
Primrose
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.1 on the afternoon of the llth of September, 1956, a message was received from the East pier that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Quern buoy. At 3.5 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis put out. The sea was...