LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978...
Category: Obituaries
Jane, of North Shields
On the night of the 5th March, the brig Jane, of North Shields, stranded three miles and a quarter south of Palling, in a strong gale from S.S.W. The Palling life-boat was taken to the spot, on her transporting-carriage, and launched to her...
Laurel, of London
A heavy gale was sweep- ing along the coast of South Devon on the night of the 23rd November, when rockets were observed at Mount Batten, indicative of some shipping disaster; and it being presently ascertained that a sbjp had parted from...
Flower of Portsoy
Shortly after 7 P.M. on the 31st August a telephone message was received, stating that the schooner Flower of Portsoy, of Plymouth, was aground on the Platter Rocks, in Holyhead Bay.
The Cemlyn Life-boat, Anne Collin, was...
The S.S. Chamois
WINTEETON, NORFOLK.—The look-out man having observed lights on the 27th February, 1901, the crew of the Lifeboat Margaret were summoned. The nature of the lights could not be discerned and therefore it was decided to launch the Life-boat in...
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE AUXILIARII for LIFE-BOAT STATIOh Six-ton "Above Ground" type of electrically driven capstan supplied to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for hauling in the life-boat at Walmer Life-boat...
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Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE AUXILIARIES for LIFE-BOAT STATIONS the Royal National Life-boat I n s t i t u t i o n for hauling in the life-boat at Walmer Life-boat Station.
Similar capstans have been installed at Hastings, Clovelly and...
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Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 3.55 p.m. on 23rd August, 1968, it was reported that a girl had been washed off the rocks at Land's End and a man had jumped into the sea to help her.
The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched...
Clarke, Chapman & Co. Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE AU X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
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Five Fishing Vessels and Success
At 10.26 a.m. on 26th February, 1965, the coxswain was informed that conditions on the harbour bar were becoming very dangerous and that six local fishing boats were still at sea. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 10.30 in a...