LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the life-boat Craziford and Con- stance Conybeare was returning to her moorings after she had been beached for bottom cleaning, when a dinghy was seen to...
The S.S. Perou and the S.S. Vittoria Claudia (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 16th of November, 1953, the Lade coastguard telephoned the Dungeness life-boat station that the S.S. Perou, of Havre, had reported that she had been...
Mary-Brigitte (1)
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 12.55 early on the morning of the 7th of February, 1959, the coxswain of the Valentia life-boat was informed that the French trawler Mary-Brigitte of Concarneau was sinking three miles south of the...
Roger Aubert
Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—On the morning of the 28th February it was reported that a small vessel was dragging her anchors. She was the ketch Roger Aubert, of Paimpol, bound with a cargo of coal, and a crew of five, from Swansea to St. Brieuc...
Bolivar
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 6.39 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser had stopped six miles south of the harbour and might have broken down. There was a west-south-westerly wind of near gale force, a...
Charles Boyes
MAY 25TH. - CAISTER, AND, GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 12.20 P.M. a heavy explosion was heard at Caister, and later it was learnt that the trawler Charles Boyes, engaged in Admiralty service, had been mined...
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
Davenport
At 11.45 A.M.
on the 14th February, the coast- guard at Hornsea telephoned that a barge, anchored about six miles S.E.
of Hornsea, was flying a flag that could not be distinguished, but that she was...
The French Fishing Boat T.R 47
Whilst making for Newhaven Harbour on the 13th March in a W. by S. moderate gale and very heavy sea, the French fishing-boat T. R. 47 stranded about a quarter of a mile to the eastward. The Life-boat was promptly launched, but whilst pro-...
The S.S. Indian Exporter
Hartlepool, Durham.—At 1.20 early on the morning of the 16th of May, 1953, the Teesmouth life-boat station telephoned to say that the S.S. Indian Exporter, of Calcutta, had asked for a boat to land a sick seaman. The Teesmouth life-boat was...