LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Gratitude for Life-Boat Services
ON the 8th May, 1930, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat saved the sailing yacht Billikat, and rescued her two occupants. Mr. H. L. Loring, the owner, has become a subscriber of £2 2s. to the Institution.
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Friendly Star
The steam drifter Friendly Star, of Lowestoft, stranded on the North Bank on 14th November, while bound for Yarmouth from the fishing grounds in a dense fog with a light W.S.W. wind. Information that the vessel was burning flares for help...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
Susan
On the afternoon of the 22nd August fourteen local fishing cobles were at sea outside the harbour entrance. A moderate N.E.
breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough and breaking owing to a very strong outflow from the...
Sir William Hillary: "A Son of All Countries."
THE Spanish Society for Saving the Shipwrecked has named the new Motor Life-boat which it has stationed at Malaga, near Gibraltar, the Sir William Hillary, after the founder of the Institution, Colonel Sir "William Hillary, Bt., who...
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South African (1)
FORMBY AND NEW BRIGHTON. The barque South African, of Belfast, bound from Eio Grande for the Mersey with a cargo of bone ash, stranded on Taylor's Bank in a strong W. wind with a heavy sea on the llth April. On the vessel being observed...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—Very early on the morning of the 30th January, 1938, the watchman at Curracloe reported rockets between the Lucifer and Blackwater Light-vessels. A storm was blowing from the N.W. by W., and a heavy sea was...
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Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 23rd March, 1938, a message was received from Sandness that a woman on the island of Papa Stour was seriously ill and in need of a doctor. Owing to very bad weather the regular ferry service to the...
Sailor King
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 3.19 P.M.
on the 3rd July, 1938, the coastguard reported that a herring drifter had gone ashore on Proudfoot Rock, on the north side of Wick Bay. She was the Sailor King, of Lowestoft, bound for...
Bluebird
Margate. Kent.——At 12.55 in the early morning of the 6th of November, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht at anchor half a mile north-west of the coastguard station was making heavy weather. There was a rough sea, and a strong north...