LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Corchester and S.S. Cormull
Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.44 on the morning of the 19th of February, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Corchester, of London, had collided with another vessel two miles west of Haisboro' lightvessel, and that the CorcJiester...
Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling
BY the death of Mrs. Lotinga Smith, of Gedling, Nottingham, on the 26th of December, 1950, at the age of 93, the Institution has lost its oldest honorary worker. In spite of her age, and in spite of ill-health, she refused to give up and...
Category: Obituaries
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
Category: Articles
Harry Martin
At 9.15 P.M. on the llth May it was reported that a fishing vessel, the Harry Martin, of Ramsgate, in trying to make the Har- bour had failed to do so and was driving ashore. The weather at the time was very bad, with a strong N.E. gale...
The Helwick Lightvessel
Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secretary received a request from the Trinity House Superintendent at Swansea for the services of the life-boat to land a very sick member of the...
The S.S. Downshire
Newcastle, Co. Down.—On the 8th of December, 1954, the S.S. Downshire, of Belfast, a collier bound for Dundrum from Garston, ran hard ashore on the sands three quarters of a mile west of Dundrum harbour entrance, but the life-boat was not...
Clytie
Hoylake, Cheshire. Between nine o'clock and 10.50 on the morning of the 12th of June, 1960, the coxswain kept the yacht Clytie, which was lying at anchor in the Swash to the north of Hilbre Island, under observation. Dur- ing this time...
Kurt Arlt and Petrel (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD.—On the 3rd August the Peterhead Life-boat was launched, and was employed for many hours in assisting fishing vessels which, during a storm, were obliged to run for Peterhead Harbour.
The crew from one fishing...
Three Fishing Cobles
On the 3rd November, the Scarborough life-boat put off three times and brought safely into port three fishing cobles and their *crews, consisting of 9 men, during a strong N.N.W. wind and a heavy sea. The cobles were re- turning from their...