LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Small Tank Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—23rd November, 1938. A small tank steamer, with her engine broken down, had dragged her anchor near the West Sunk Sands, but she did not need help.
—Rewards, £24 19s..
A Barge
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A barge had been reported sinking, but she had sunk, and there was no sign of her crew when the life-boat arrived. A steamer had gone ashore, but tugs were standing by her and she did not need the...
A Vessel (9)
MARCH 5TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A vessel attached to the balloon barrage service had been reported to be in difficulties, but did not need help. - Permanent paid crew. Rewards, 6S. 9d..
A Dinghy
DECEMBER 30TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.45 in the afternoon thepolice reported a boy adrift in a small boat off Maddock’s Slip, River Mersey, and in need of help. A fresh north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea. With ex-second...
The Fishguard Gold Medal Service
ON the 2nd December the three-masted Dutch motor schooner Hermina, which had been sheltering in Fishguard Harbour, left for Rotterdam. During the night the wind freshened until it was blowing a moderate gale from N. W., and she was compelled...
Category: Articles
Jeune Arthur
WINCHELSEA, SUSSEX.—On the morning of the 19th January, during the prevalence of a whole gale and heavy sea, the cutter Jeune Arthur, of Cherbourg, bound from Dunkirk for Granville, was observed making for the land under forestaysail and jib...
The Last of the Sailing Life-Boats
As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th of December, 1948, the term motor lifeboat will no longer be used. " Life-boat" will mean "motor life-boat." The one boat remaining which...
Category: Inaugurations
Colonel T. H. Cornish, of Penzance
By the death on 22nd December, 1930, at the age of sixty-seven, of Colonel T. H. Cornish, the Town Clerk of Penzance, the Institution has lost one of its oldest Station Honorary Secretaries. Colonel Cornish was a great lover of the sea. He...
Category: Obituaries
Mary Anne
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire.—At about 1.30 in the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1948, the Tenby coastguard telephoned that a bod'y had been washed ashore at Ferryside that morn- ing, and the motor fishing vessel Mary Anne, of Swansea,...
The Motor Fishing Boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success left harbour for the fishing grounds at about 4 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938. A few hours later the wind got up rapidly, and by 10 A.M.
a gale...