LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shrimp
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—A party of four Liverpool yachtsmen were rescued from a dangerous position on the 3rd April. They set out the night before in the yacht Shrimp, but had not proceeded far when they encountered a severe westerly gale,...
Book Corner
• Much in demand in recent years but soon out of print after its appearance in 1958, Cyril Jolly's book HenryBlogg ofCromer (George Harrap.
£1.90) has been reprinted with the usual...
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Hartside and Kathleen
FLAMBOROUGH.—At noon on the 27th March a telephone message was received from Bridlington asking that the Life-boat might take provisions to the steamer Hartside, of Newcastle, which was lying off Sewerby. A gale of wind was blowing from the...
St Simeon (1)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
Violet and Grey Gull
The next call came between 2 A.M.
and 2.30 A.M., when the coxswain received a telephone message that the life-boat was wanted, but at that moment the telephone lines were blown down, and no details could be got. At 2.40 A.M...
Devotion
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumber- land. At 9.45 on the morning of the 14th of September, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small local fishing boat was anchored about a mile and a half north of Berwick with her engine...
Polly Johnson and Scarron
Humber, Yorkshire. — During the afternoon of the 27th August the Mablethorpe coastguard reported,through the Spurn Point signal station, that two trawlers had been in collision ten miles north of the Humber and that one of them was sinking....
Cieszyn
MARCH 20TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
During the evening the honorary secretary of the station and the coxswain had under observation a steamer which was approaching from the east, as aeroplanes could be heard in the distance...
None (3)
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 9.25 on the evening of the 23rd of July, 1953, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard rang up to say that the Harwich police had reported that a man and a woman were stranded on a sandbank in Dovercourt Bay...
Donalda
APRIL 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 1.45 in the morning it was reported that a vessel of an outward-bound convoy had gone ashore on the Binks. She appeared to be on her beam ends and was sounding distress signals on her...