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Who are these heros? I thought this photograph (right) might be of interest to readers - it was taken by me when I visited Honfleur, Normandy in June this year. My recognition is not all that good but is she an old Watson lifeboat? There was...
Category: Correspondence
Coxswain Albert Spurgeon of Lowestoft
COXSWAIN ALBERT SPURGEON, of Lowestoft, who died on the 5th of April, 1953, at the age of 73, had been one of the Institution's most distin- guished coxswains. According to the local records he joined the life-boat crew in his teens, and...
Category: Obituaries
Nancy
Drifting trawler THE RAMSGATE TRAWLER Nancy reported to Ramsgate Harbour Radio on the evening of Monday January 30, 1984, that warps and nets had fouled her propeller. Her position was one and ahalf miles east south east of North Foreland...
Gustaf
CRESSWELL.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th January, during a gale at S.E., the steamer Gustaf, of Gothenburg, in Sweden, was wrecked in Dunridge Bay, near Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland. On the lights of the vessel being observed, the crew...
June (1)
JUNE MEETING PORTREATH, CORNWALL. At 9.10 in the morning of the 7th January, 1942, a coastguard saw a rubber dinghy in the sea one and a half miles N.W. of Portreath look-out.
A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Hero
On the llth October this life-boat again went out and rescued a fisherman from his boat, called the Hero, of Teignmouth, which had struck and afterwards sunk on the bar in a heavy sea. A Coast-guard boat had previously attempted to save the...
Mary Heeley
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 in the morning, on the 30th of April, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that flares had been seen off Onchan Head.
At 12.45 the life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a thick fog with a...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 6.50 on the night of the 1st of January, 1951, the Coast Life-Saving Service reported that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had wire- lessed that she had a sick man on board.
So at 7.3 the life-boat Ann...
Wavell
Lowestoft, Suffolk. — On the night of the llth of November, 1951, the coast- guard reported that a man had seen red flares from a boat about a mile south of the harbour and three hundred yards from the shore, and at 8.30 the life-boat...
Advent
Dungeness, Kent.—At 7.57 on the morning of the 17th of March, 1957, a message was received from a fisher- man that a vessel was ashore at Great- stone. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched at 8.25 in a smooth sea. There was a...