LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dirk II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 3.52 in the afternoon, on the 12th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the Customs at Brightlingsea had reported a yacht on her beam ends, and high and dry in Ray Sand Channel. At 4.15 the life-boat...
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
A Motor Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.42 on the afternoon of the 10th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat anchored off Colne Point was dragging her anchor and showing a distress signal at the mast-head. The...
Thorsbjerg
WHITEHAVEN, CUMBBBLAND.—At midnight on the 9th of May, the Norwegian barque Thorsbjerg, laden with deals from Laurvig for Whitehaven, which was lying at anchor off the port, waiting until the tide would allow her to enter, parted both her...
Robert Cross, G.M.
Coxswain Robert Cross, of the Humber has been awarded the George medal by the King for the rescue of the crew of the Grimsby trawler "Gurth" on 12th. February 1940. The Institution awarded him its gold medal for the same service....
Category: Articles
Mr. H. A. Bryden
Mr. H. A. Bryden, who died in September, 1937, at the age of eighty- three, was distinguished as an interna- tional athlete, sportsman, traveller and naturalist, and as the author of many books on these subjects. He came to the Institution...
Category: Obituaries
Lora and H.H. 100
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.50 on theafternoon of the 27th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the schooner Lora, of East Mersea, had had some of her sails carried away and was drifting east-by-south of Clacton Pier. At 3.2...
Reward
Shortly after 6 A.M.
on the 4th April, it was reported that a vessel was on the rocks east of Fair- light Coastguard Station, and that she was showing flares for assistance. The crew of the Life-boat Charles Arkcoll was...
Maggie
The Life-boat Henry Vernon was despatched at 8.30 A.M. on the 18th January to the assistance of the brigantine Maggie A., of Poole, which was sighted about that time making for the river. A strong gale was blowing with a very heavy sea, and...
A Contrast
IT is a lovely morning in July, the morning after the Royal St. George's Regatta.
Kingstown Harbour is bright and beautiful with the taper masts and snowy canvas of a whole fleet of yachts. An " ocean race"...
Category: Articles