LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
Category: Services
Yacht Nicephore
Ramsgate, Kent.— At 7.55 in the morning of the 22nd of August, 1948, a message was received from North Deal that a schooner yacht, the Nice- phore, of France, with eight men, women and children on board, was aground on the Brake Sands. She...
Peace
Clacton- on- Sea, Essex.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the crew of a yacht were shouting for help south- west of Buxey Sands. At 6.30 the life-boat //. C. J., on temporary duty at the station...
S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a small steamer aground on the east side of the Scroby Sands. A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The...
Fanny Grosfield
At about 11 A.M. on the 9th April, during a strong N.N.E. gale and very heavy sea, the schooner Fanny Grosfield of Bai'row- in-Furness was seen drifting helplessly with her canvas all blown away, and a little later, when the vessel was...
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the new Walton and Frinton life-boat, a gift to the Institu- tion...
Category: Advertisement
A Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties one mile east of Tynemouth North Point. At 12.10 the life-boat...
(Below) City of Bristol at Her Naming Ceremony Performed By the Lady Mayoress of Bristol Mrs a G Peglar Seen Above With Captain Roy Harding (Left) and Crew Member
(Below) City of Bristol at her naming ceremony, performed by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G. Peglar, seen above with Captain Roy Harding (left) and crew members.
Photograph by courtesy of Bristol Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mousse le Moyec
DECEMBER 6TH. - CLOVELLY. DEVON.
The S.S. Mousse le Moyec, of Lorient, was in distress, and the life-boat was launched with the help of all the women of the village, but she could not go beyond the race at Hartland Point in...