LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henry Blogg, G.C., B.E.M., of Cromer
HENRY GEORGE BLOGG, coxswain of the Cromer life-boat, retired at the end of last September, at the age of 71, after serving for over fifty-three years as a life-boatman. His record is unequalled in the 124 years of the Life-boat Service and...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...
Category: Articles
Boy David
Life-boat 70-002 - Bristol Channel - At 1.35 p.m. on 7th May, 1967, a member of the crew of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie lying at anchor off Ilfracombe saw a red flare at the east end of Ilfracombe bay. There was a moderate westerly...
Strathcoe
On the 4th of February, 1959, the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat rescued the crew of fourteen of the steam trawler Strathcoe. For this service, a full account of which appears on pages 222-3, Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick was awarded the silver...
The S.S. Seasilver
Apple dor e, Devon.—At 4.38 in the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1948, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Sea silver, of Newcastle, bound for Amster- dam, appeared to have her engine broken down, off the Bar Buoy, and needed a pilot. A...
Page & Moy
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Category: Advertisement
(Above) Two of a Set of Six Gaelic Coffee Glasses (Or Wine Glasses) Made By Cavan Crystal Ltd Each Glass Carries a Different Decoration: the Rnli House Flag Crest A
(Above) Two of a set of six Gaelic coffee glasses (or wine glasses), made by Cavan Crystal Ltd. Each glass carries a different decoration: the RNLI house flag, crest, an ILB, 44' Waveney lifeboat and two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Stranding of the "Eider."
The " Eider " rode on the open sea With her safety in God's own hand For a thousand miles—-ay, two, and three, With never a sight of land.
A shell of steel on the world of waves That severs the hemispheres,...
Category: Poetry
The Annie, Johann Benjamin, and Briton and Krona
On the night of the 17th, lights, repeated in quick succession, were seen in the direction of the New Sand light, and the Donna Nook Life-boat proceeded to sea, but the unfortunate vessel, which was found to be the Annie, of Montrose, had...
Wellington (1)
PLYMOUTH and YEALM RIVER.—On the night of the 28th of January the Plymouth Life-boat Clemency and the Yealm River Life-boat Bowman went out in reply to signals of distress shown by the barque Wellington, of Windsor, N.S. The wind was blowing...