LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Four Herring Boats
On the 25th June the services of the Thomas Bewick were again called into requisition. Four of the herring boats belonging to the port were waiting for the tide to rise sufficiently for them to get into harbour, but in the prevailing...
Service
Early in the morning of the 17th September during a strong gale from N.N.W. with heavy rain squalls, a messenger arrived at Palling and reported that a vessel was ashore about three miles to the north- ward of the station. The crew and...
Wave Crest
Coxswain John Swan of the Lowestoft Life-boat Kentwell was called out by the beach- men at 4.30 P.M. on the 15th February and informed that a vessel was aground at the entrance to the harbour. The Life-boat was launched without loss of time,...
Don’t Know
At 8.15 A.M. on the 17th July, the cutter Don't Know, of Yarmouth, was observed in distress in the roads abreast the station, and the Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched.
When she arrived alongside the fishing- boat the...
Scotland's Achievement
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
Category: Donations
Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 15th April the local motor fishing boats Prosperity, Progress, Endeavour, Flying Spray and Success put out to fish. A nasty sea was running. Later on it grew worse and broke heavily on the bar....
Golden Hind
YACHT TOWED IN Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
•—At 4.15 in the afternoon of the 7th of September, 1947, the coastguard reported the steamer St. Abbs Head, with a wherry yacht in tow. signalling for help outside the...
Providence
Margate, Kent.—During the evening of the 23rd of July, 1948, the sister of the skipper of the local fishing vessel Providence reported that the Providence had gone out fishing early that morning and was long overdue. The coast- guard was...
A Motor Boat and a Rowing Boat
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 3.41 in the afternoon of the 22nd of August, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a broken down motor boat and a rowing boat were drifting northwards, on the ebbing tide, in a moderate south-westerly breeze and...
Peggy, of Lowestoft
Margate, Kent. — At about 8.45 P.M.
on the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that a vessel near the Long Nose Rock, two miles east of the life-boathouse, was burning flares. A fresh E.S.E. breeze was blowing,...