LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Luggers - Alexander, of Yarmouth & Musselburgh, of Lowstoft
During a heavy snow squall on the evening of the 7th December the fishing-luggers Alexander, of Yarmouth, and Musselburgh, of Lowestoft, came ashore on the beach south of the harbour of Lowestoft. The crew of the^ first-named vessel were...
Sisters
GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.—On the afternoon of the 24th October, the Sisters fishing vessel, of Gorleston, was making for the harbour on the ebb tide, the wind at the time blowing a very heavy gale from the S.S.W., right out of the...
Allegiance
WATCHET, SOMERSE TSHIRE.—Lights were observed to the northward of the harbour, during a strong wind and a heavy sea, early on the morning of the 24th January.
The W. It. G. Kingston Life-boat was launched at 7.30, proceeded...
Effort
The ketch Effort, of Southampton, stranded on the Shingle Bank during a N.E. gale, on the 22nd January, and the heavy seas made a clean breach over her. At 5.30 P.M. the Life-boat Robert Fleming was launched and proceeded to. the as-...
Mascot
About 4.30 P.M. on 24th October, during a strong N.N.E. breeze with a rough sea, infor- mation was received through the Coast- guard that the motor boat Mascot was in difficulties off Sands Head, and later it was reported that two men from...
Congratulations from 14,000 Miles Away
COXSWAIN HENRY BLOGG, of Cromer, who recently received the Silver Medal of the Institution for the rescue, last October, of thirty lives from the Italian steamer, Monte Nevoso, has received a postcard from San Diego, California, which says :...
Category: Articles
A Great Record: Mr. B. J. Newcombe, of Howth
Ix November 1891, Mr. B. J. New- combe was elected a member of the committee of the Howth, Dublin, life-boat station. Eight years later, in January 1900, he was appointed honorary secretary. He served in that office for forty-five years,...
Category: Articles
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
DOLPHIN IN PUBLIC RELATIONS EXERCISE
The IRB at Hartlepoool, Co. Durham, had an unusual service on 21st June, 1970, which it turned into 'a public relations exercise owing to the beach being packed with visitors and a rather smelling dead dolphin causing some headaches to...
Category: Articles
Luana
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 11.20 on the night of the 8th of May, 1948, the police telephoned that flares had been seen. At 11.45 what appeared to be oil burning on the water could be seen, and at 12.13 the motor life-boat Sarah Ann...