LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Karen
MOTHER REPORTS SONS MISSING IN BOAT Torbay, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 26th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the mother of two young men had reported that they had not returned home after leaving...
Ramlah, Freda and Rosamund
OCTOBER 22ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Fishing cobles had put to sea at 8 A.M., and all except three had returned by noon. By 1 P.M. a strong N.N.E. wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, making it dangerous for cobles to come...
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.
Category: Donations
Two Canoes
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 2.6 on the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1960, the coast- guard learnt from the police that two canoes had capsized in Breydon Water.
This information was passed by the...
Caroline Elizabeth, of London
On the following night the same life-boat again put off, in reply to signals of distress, and succeeded in saving the crew, consisting of 13 men, from the barque Caroline Eliza- beth, of London, which had stranded on the South Steel rocks...
Golden Rule
At 6.30 P.M.
on the 25th March a small motor fishing-boat named the Golden Rule was seen to be in danger in the heavy sea, and unable to make the harbour owing to the low tide. It was, there- fore, considered advisable...
Crackerjack
A SERVICE AND A FALSE ALARM Selsey, Sussex. At 6.4 p.m. on Thursday the 29th August, 1963, the coastguard reported to the assistant honorary secretary that a merchant ship had taken the yacht Crackerjack, of Southampton, with a crew of two,...
Myhaven
TOW FOR YACHT AFTER FUEL PIPE CLEARED Arbroath, Angus. At 5.20 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor yacht Myhaven had broken down with engine trouble three miles north of the...
Ingleborough
CAISTER.—On the evening of the 23rd December flares were seen from a vessel ashore on the Barber Sand. The Godsend Life-boat was immediately launched, and on arriving at the sand the barque Ingleborough, of Hull, was found to have gone...
Celerity
One of the finest services in the neighbourhood of Gorleston in exceptionally severe weather was performed by the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 on the night of 15th-16th January, 1905. A strong S.E. wind had been blowing for days, and...