LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Seafire Aeroplane
OCTOBER 7TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVONSHIRE.
At 3.10 in the afternoon the wife of the life-boat coxswain saw a Seafire aeroplane crash into the sea five miles N.E. by N.
of Clovelly. A moderate N.E. breeze was...
Shannons named
Volunteer crews welcomed new Shannon class lifeboats in the Summer.
The second Shannon to be placed on station arrived at Exmouth, Devon, on 12 May. At Dungeness in Kent, HRH The Princess Royal officially named and...
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Life-Boat Services
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 2nd of September a strong gale and heavy sea having sprung up, two large herring-boats, in attempting to get into Berwick Harbour, got to leeward of it, and went on shore. A steam-tug proceeded to their assistance,...
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Fly, of Whitby
On the night of the 2nd November, at 10 P.M., blowing a heavy gale from the north, signals of distress were seen from Lowestoft: the life-boat was at once launched through a heavy surf, and pro- ceeded under sail to the spot, where the...
Fernand, of St Malo
On the morning of .the 23rd November the schooner Fer- nand,, of St. .Male, stranded on the West Sand, at the entrance of Blakeney Harbour.
;In the evening it came on to blow heavily from E.S.E., causing a very bad sea,...
Beatrix, of Whitby
The life-boat Letitia was launched about midnight on the j 12th February, 1869, in reply to signals of distress from the brig Beatrix, of Whitby, which was riding heavily in the Roads near Gorton Gapway, with her mainmast cut; away, during a...
Isabella Granger, of Whitby
"While she was rendering this service, the Mark Lane Life-boat had gone off to a vessel which had sunk in the Roads, but no traces could be found of the crew of that ill-fated ship. The boat was returning when she was hailed by the...
Gesine
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 13 performed an excellent service on the 14th April.
At 5.30 in the morning a message was received that a vessel was on the rocks at Westhaven, Carnoustie. With all haste the Life-boat...
A Small Boat
Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 18th June, 1939, a small boat with five boys on board was seen two miles N.N.E. from the life-boat station.
A moderate S.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The boat was...
Ystroom, of Amsterdam
On the 27th January, during a fresh breeze at S.S.E., in obedience to signals observed from the North Sand Head and Gull Lightships, the Life- boat Bradford, in tow of the steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the barque Ystroom, of Amsterdam, then...