LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...

CROOKHAVEN, Co. CORK. At one in the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1945, six men put out in a six-oar rowing boat to salve a bale of rubber about two miles at sea. A south-south-east wind of almost gale force was blowing, with a very...

FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—A life-boat station has been recently formed at Fleetwood in connection with the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. A life-boat, on Mr. PEAKE'S plan, as adopted by the Institution, 30 ft. long, rowing six oars,...

JULY 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.35 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on South Scroby Sands, and a few minutes later another message came that a second vessel had grounded on South Scroby Sands....

MARCH MEETING BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE. At 3.15 in the afternoon of the 3rd of February, 1945, an object was seen by the coastguard, about three-quarters of a mile off shore. The weather was fine, with a south-west wind ; the sea was calm. The...

Words: Anna Burn. Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI/(Penarth, Porthdinllaen, Norma Stockford, Vicky Walmsley-Williams, Charlie Williams)

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WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it...

On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.

JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...