LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winterton
Coxswain Samuel Brown, of Winter- ton, Norfolk, who died on llth January last, at the age of sixty-five, joined the Life-boat Crew at Winterton, Norfolk, in 1884, when he was eighteen years old.
He was appointed Second...
Category: Obituaries
Mr. B. J. Kirkham, of New Brighton
Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
Category: Obituaries
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Oliver, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., M.V.O., LL.D., died in his loist year on i5th October, 1965. He was, in the words of The Times obituary, "one of the outstanding seamen of his time". A man of few words and...
Category: Obituaries
The Bull Light-Vessel (1)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—29th April.
A steamer reported by wireless that she had been in collision with the Bull lightvessel, but the life-boat found that the light-vessel did not need help.— Permanent paid crew..
Lilly I
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—15th January, 1938. The Norwegian motor vessel Lilly I, of Bergen, appeared to be dragging her anchors, but she did not need help, and moved to a safer position.
—Rewards, £10 3s. 6d..
Venus and Pilot Me
About 5 A.M. on the 18th October four of the local fishing boats put to sea. Shortly afterwards the wind veered to the N.N.W. and increased to a strong gale with very heavy seas which made it dangerous to enter the harbour. One of the boats...
Bread Winner and Coronation Queen
COXSWAIN'S COBLE ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.49 on the morning of the 18th January, 1963, three fishing cobles were at sea in deteriorating weather and some concern was felt for their safety when they would enter...
Dolphin
Runswick, Yorkshire. About noon on the 17th of April, 1960, the weather began to deteriorate, and as the fishing boat Dolphin of Staithes was at sea with a crew of three, it was decided to launch the life-boat The Elliott GUI to escort the...
Silver Line, Rosamund, Cutty Sark and Brighter Hope
JUNE 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a light northerly breeze was blowing, but there was a strong swell breaking about four hundred yards outside the harbour entrance, and a fishing coble, attempting to make...
None
Cut off by tide TENBY COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Tenby lifeboat station at 1945 on Sunday May 15,1983, that two people were cut off by the tide at Freshwater East, westward along the coast. Five minutes later the...