LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool
— On the 19th March, as the brig Border Chieftain, of Hartlepool, was coming into the Tyne under charge of a pilot, a sea struck her steering wheel, injuring the man at the helm, and she was driven on the Stones south of the North Pier,...
Mascotte
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 8.50 in the morning of the 20th of September, 1948, the coastguard reported that a yacht three miles to the north-north- west was flying a two-flag signal and appeared to have stopped in an unusual position. The motor...
The S.S. Bencroy
On the 28th January, shortly before seven o'clock in the evening, a telephone message was received stating that a vessel was on the Haisborough Sands and the No. 2 Life-boat Margaret was launched with all despatch. On reach- ing the...
Hrh the Duchess of Kent Takes a Short Trip Around the Harbour Following the Ceremony to Name the New Mersey Class Lifeboat Kingdom of Fife.
HRH The Duchess of Kent takes a short trip around the harbour following the ceremony to name the new Mersey class lifeboat Kingdom of Fife. - View image in PDF
Photo William Flett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Beehive
FORMBY.—On the morning of the 22nd February the coxswain of the Life-boat received a message by cable stating that a vessel was aground on the Great Burbo Bank. The crew of the Life-boat John and Henrietta were at once summoned, and at 9.25...
The S.S. White Toft
APRIL 29TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore at Robin Hood’s Bay, six miles to the south of Whitby. There was a dense fog, with a light S.E. wind and a strong ground swell....
The Crosby Lightship
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.38 A.M. on the 8th March, 1939, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board reported that the Crosby Lightship was adrift.
A heavy W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and rain squalls. The No...
New Ways of Raising Money
A collecting box placed at Mashford's Boat Yard, where Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV was berthed after her record breaking voyage back to Plymouth., raised £85 for the R.N.L.I.
* * * The...
Category: Donations
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries