LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marguerite (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
Mr. John Miller, M.B.E.
MR. JOHN MILLER, the honorary secretary of the Thurso station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours List, 1948. Mr. Miller became honorary secretary in March, 1914, and retired in May, 1948, after...
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Up!
Going to the rescue of the barge Norseman on March 15th, 1937. - View image in PDF
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Fishing Cobles (1)
Staithes, Yorkshire. — Early on the morning of the 3rd June five local fishing cobles put out to the fishing ground to haul crab pots. The weather was fine, but there was a strong searunning. The sea increased until there was considerable...
Breadwinner II
Holy Island, Northumberland. — At 2.30 P.M. on the 18th January, 1938, the coastguard reported that the fishing coble Breadwinner II, of Holy Island, was overdue, and that anxiety was felt for her safety. The sea was choppy, with a moderate...
None (5)
Fowey, Cornwall. —At 2.3 early on the morning of the 12th of August. 1954, the Polruan coastguard reported that a vessel was sounding blasts on a fog- horn near Gwineas Rock about one mile west of Mevagissey. At 2.31 the life-boat C.D.E.C....
Cromer, Gorleston and Scarborough Memorials
LORD TEMPLEWOOD, president of the Cromer branch of the Institution, un- veiled a tablet in the No. 1 life-boat- house at Cromer on the l()th of August, 1955, and formally opened a shelter in which a tablet is inscribed: "To honour the...
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Zyava
Kirkcudbright.—At 6.40 on the morn- ing of the 20th of April, 1956, the Portpatrick coastguard rang up to say that the fishing vessel Zyava, of Fleet- wood, had fouled her screw and required help between Heston Island and Abbey Head. The...
Hopeful
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 29th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Hopeful, of Thurso, had broken down twenty-five miles south of Wick. At three o'clock the life-boat...
Long John Silver at Ramsgate
He is with the Mayor and Coxswain Douglas Kirkaldie on Life-boat Day, and has just been rescued by the life-boat. - View image in PDF
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