LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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The rescue of a swimmer and two earned the helmsman and crew of lifeguards who had gone to his aid has Sunderland's D class lifeboat and two shore helpers a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations.The incident began at...
Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
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Category: Advertisement
Six Sailing Dinghies
LIFE-BOAT'S FORTUNATE SOCIAL APPEARANCE Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was attending the Clacton-on-Sea sailing club regatta on Sunday the 25th August, 1963. She left the slipway at 11.50 a.m. and lay off the...
Mr. Frank Garon, of Southend-On-Sea
MR. FRANK GARON, the chairman of the Southend-on-Sea branch died on the 29th of July at the age of sixty. A director of the big catering firm of Garons in Southend, he was another of the many busy men who yet are able to give much of their...
Category: Obituaries
The Schoonr Lydney Trader, of Barnstable
On the 13th February the Appledore Life-boat, Hope, saved the crew of 3 men from the wreck of the schooner Lydney Trader, of Barnstaple. That vesselhad sailed last from Caldy Island, and had tried to get into Barnstaple Har- bour, but failed...
The British-Manned Liberty Ship Samnethy
DECEMBER 7TH - 10TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 in the morning, the naval base at Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, that the life-boat should launch to the British-manned Liberty ship Samnethy, which had...
A Steamer (23)
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
Flares had been reported, but thesteamer which was in distress got help from tugs. - Rewards, £15 6s..
October (1)
PORTH HELLICK, SCILLY ISLES. At about 4 in the afternoon of the 4th June, 1942, a Tiger Moth aeroplane, the engine of which had failed, fell into the sea about fifty yards off the shore at Porth Hellick. The accident was seen by Mr. C....
Category: Services
Vixen
About 1 A.M.
on the 9th March the schooner Vixen of Fowey was wrecked on the beach about two and a half miles to the north of Palling. She was laden with burnt ore and was bound from London to the Tyne. The crew consisted...
Gorleston
— On 7th December, with a N.W. breeze blowing and a heavy ground swell on the sands, the Dutch steamer Friesland, belonging to Rotterdam, stranded on the east side of the Scroby Sands, west of the Bell Buoy. She was on her way, light, from...