LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Floating Crane
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.20 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Portsmouth had reported a floating crane in difficulties in Hayling Bay. A moderate south-west gale was blowing, with a rough...
North Esk of Sunderland
On the 2nd November, at daylight, the brig North Esk, of SUnderland, was seen ashore on the north tail of Bideford Bar, the wind blowing a hurricane from W.N.W. at the time. A crew was quickly despatched from Apple- dore to man the life-boat...
Altivo, of Lisbon
On the night of the 23rd February, a vessel was ob- served on shore inside the South Tail Sand- bank, Bideford Bay. The wind was blowing a gale at the time from W.N. W. The Hope life-boat was promptly launched, and pro- ceeded towards the...
Admiral Mitford and Thomas & Mary
On the 12th Feb. two of the Filey fishing vessels, the Admiral Mitford, and the Thomas and Mary, which were in the Bay, sent their small boats ashore with fish, leaving only a man and a boy in each yawl. While the men were occupied on the...
A Pilot Launch, a Port Control Launch and Dereske
DECEMBER 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. During the evening a strong southerly gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea, and a pilot launch and a port control launch, both of Cork, were swamped and sunk in Cork Harbour when on their way to put...
Frej (1)
Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon of Lowestoft
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...
Category: Obituaries
Sidelights on Stations and Places . . .
When the Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 55) docked at Broad Quay, Bristol, in preparation for Bristol Life-boat Day, television announcer Guy Thomas, on behalf of T.W.W.
Ltd., presented a television set to the...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.
Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...
Category: Articles
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Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...