LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Primrose
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—A thick fog prevailed here on the 8th January; a strong breeze blew front the S.S.W., and there was a heavy swell. At about 3 P.M. the fog cleared a little, and a vessel, which proved to be the brig Primrose of and from...
Britannia
Flamborough, Yorkshire. — On the morning of the 22nd April, 1939, a heavy N.N.W. gale sprang up while the fishing fleet was at sea. Several boats landed with difficulty and it was decided to send out the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina...
Audentia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — At 11.18 on the night of the 10th of August, 1954, the coastguard reported that a vessel appeared to be aground off St.
Combs, but at 11.50 she was seen to be under way. At midnight she...
lona
Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 3.20 on the morningof the 20th of September, 1954, the owners of the motor vessel lona, of Shapinsay, a passenger boat of 15 tons bound for Shapinsay from Stronsay with five people on board, reported that she was long...
Feistein
Walmer, Kent.—At 11.56 on the night of the 18th of October, 1954, the Deal coastguard telephoned that a vessel had gone aground two and a half miles east of the coastguard sta- tion and had signalled SOS. At 12.10 early on the 19th the...
Sea Sweeper
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary noticed that the local fishing boat Sea Sweeper, which had a crew of four, appeared to have broken down about half a mile from...
Mr. B. J. Kirkham, of New Brighton
Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
Category: Obituaries
Violet
On the afternoon of the 6th November the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat which had been seen about two miles N.N.E. of Kinnaird Head had disappeared in a squall. A moderate to strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea...
None (2)
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the...
Little Old Lady
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1950, the Jury Gap coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was burning a flare and flying a large ensign two miles south of the Gap. Most of the life- boatmen were...