LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royston
DECEMBER 7TH. - 13TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At two in the morning a message was received at Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore one and a half miles south of Palling coastguard station. A strong...
Wrecked!
SHE put to sea on Christmas Eve, And through their tears they saw her leave, And in that happy time of peace The strife of waters well might cease; Bat far away across the foam The sailor found another home.
No more, no...
Category: Poetry
June Kilgour
The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
H.M.S. Vortigern
MARCH 15TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. On the night of the 14th March and in the morning of the 15th, a convoy was attacked by enemy E-boats.
The E-boats in turn were attacked by destroyers and by H.M.S. Vortigern,...
Eastbourne Naming Ceremony
The new Eastbourne life-boat Vincent Nesfield, which is a 37-foot Oakley, was named by Esmond Knight, the actor, at Eastbourne on 9th April, 1969, the boat having been provided from the proceeds of the Joyce Giddins Fund and legacies left by...
Category: Inaugurations
Carnell Ltd,
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Category: Advertisement
A Dinghy from an Aeroplane
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 3.35 A.M. information was received from the R.A.F. at Coltishall that an aeroplane had crashed about four miles N.N.W. of Cromer, and the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched at...
Retirement of Commander T. Holmes, R.N.
IT is with great regret that we have to announce the retirement, under the age limit, of Commander Thomas Holmes, R.N., the Chief Inspector of Life-boats, on completing twenty-seven years' service, and we feel sure that our regret will...
Category: Articles
A Catamaran (1)
Dover, Kent. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a catamaran with a broken mast was trying to reach shore under a temporary sail in Wear Bay two miles east of...
Carne
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - At 10.45 a-m- on 3rd September, 1966, a small boat was reported to be in difficulties two and a half miles east of the harbour. At 10.55 tne life-boat H. F.
Bailey, on temporary duty at the...