LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Etoile du Marin
SCARBOROUGH.-—On the morning of the 8th December, at 10 o'clock, the schooner Etoile du Marin, of and for Dunkirk from Leith, with coal, was approaching the harbour during a strong gale from the E., and a very heavy sea, and as it was...
Surf
LITTLEHAMPTON.— The Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched at 10 P.M. on the 14th August, in a rough sea and a moderate to fresh gale of wind from the S., it having been reported that a vessel was making signals of...
The S.S. Rowan
REDCAR.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched at 12.45 A.M. on the 14th April, it having been reported that a steamer was stranded on the West Eoek.
The wind was blowing a light breeze from the W., but a strong sea was...
Fishing Cobles (1)
During a strong S.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the 21st March, the Life- boat Ada Lewis was launched to the assistance of twelve fishing cobles of New biggin, which had been overtaken while at sea by the gale. Two of the cobles were...
None (3)
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 5th of June, 1956, a doctor rang up to say he had attempted to visit a patient at Graemsay by fish- ing boat, but because of the rough sea the vessel had had to return to Strom- ness. As it...
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
By the death of Mrs. H. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea, who died on 22nd November, 1929, at the age of 85, the Institution has lost one of its oldest workers. She became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she...
Category: Obituaries
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, of Leigh-On-Sea
Mrs. Brandreth Gibbs, who died on 19th December last, at the age of eighty-eight, became a Life-boat worker more than sixty years ago. As far back as 1869 she was presented with a framed photograph for her work in connexion with an appeal at...
Category: Obituaries
Seeker
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.35 on the evening- of the 5th of October, 1955, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in distress one and a half miles off Sea Lane, Goring, and that one of her crew of two had waded ashore. At nine...
C 653
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At six o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May, 1956, the coastguard reported that a vessel was aground on the Middle Sunk and was sending up red flares. At 6.15 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched in a...
Watchful
PROPELLER FOULED BY FISHING NET Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At mid- night on the 17th of October, 1947, it was learned that the motor fishing boat Watchful had not returned, and at 9.40 next morning the motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of...