LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Water Lily, of Great Yarmouth
JANUARY 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal two miles south-south-east of Gorleston pier.
A light northerly...
S.S. Castor
FEBRUARY 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7 P.M. information was received from the Humber naval authorities that a Norwegian vessel, about six and a half miles from Spurn, had sent out an SOS as she was leaking badly. The weather wascold,...
The Barham Model
Left: the Barham model, which is available to branches and guilds around the country for their own fund raising events. For information, please contact Jane Hawkins at 19 Stanley Avenue, Gorleston, Norfolk NR31 7QU, tel 0493... - View image in PDF
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Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson of Troon
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Johnson of Troon first joined the lifeboat crew in 1965. He was the boat mechanic from 1970 to 1971, when he became a fleet mechanic until 1976.
In 1978 he was appointed coxswain/mechanic at... - View image in PDF
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Ellen Beatrice
At half an hour after mid- night on the 14th November, in reply to signals of distress shown from the schooner Ellen Beatrice, of Aberystwith, bound from Swansea to Dover, the Life-boat Wolver- hampt&n launched from its station, and...
The Newquay (Cornwall) Station
The Newquay (Cornwall) Station. - View image in PDF
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