LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hollyhow and Harp
GROOMSPORT, Co. DOWN.—On the 16th June, while a strong gale was blowing from N.N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea, a message. by telephone was received from Bangor stating that assistance was needed by distressed vessels. The Lifeboat...
A Pleasure Boat
The Life-boat George Woofindin was launched at 2.30 P.M. on the 15th April to the assistance of four men in a pleasure boat off Roker. The men had gone out fishing, but when they at- tempted to return they found that the off-shore wind had...
Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Coble and Ayton Castle
NORTH SUNDERLAND and HOLY ISLAND.
—On the morning of the 27th January, five fishermen put off in a coble from North Sunderland, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks on the Fame Islands.
Two of the men...
Gold Medal for Hartlepool.
The gold medal for gallantry has been awarded to Lieuteaant W. H. Bennison, C.G.M.,R.N.V.R., coxswain of the Hartlepool life-boat, the silver medal to H. W. Jefferson, the motor mechanic, and the bronze medal to each of the seven other...
Category: Articles
Arendal
At 10 A.M. on the 26th March the brig Arendal of Tonsburg, bound to Sunderland with a cargo of props, was making for the harbour, when she came to grief. There was a heavy sea run- ning at the time and the vessel struck the bar and remained...
A Drilling Rig
ROUGH SEA FACED IRB SAVE A drilling rig with men aboard off Hunterston was reported in trouble on 10th March. As assistance was required, the honorary secretary instructed the IRB at Largs, Ayrshire, to launch.
She launched...
EVER READY
Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
Category: Articles
Reussite
At 3.45 P.M. on j the 15th January information was j received that a schooner was ashore on the West Tongue Sands requiring assistance. The No. I Life-boat Eliza Harriet was launched, and on arriving at the Sands, found the schooner Beussite...
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services