LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
Cromer, Norfolk.—27th July. A fishing boat capsized, and the two men on board were drowned before the lifeboat could reach her. (See September number of The Life-boat, page 318.)— Rewards, £7 11s..
Confid
Humber, Yorkshire.—Shortly before midnight on the 19th March, 1938, the motor vessel Confid, of Rotterdam, bound laden from Plymouth for Middlesbrough, ran aground on the Inner Binks. A moderate south-westerly breeze was blowing, with a...
Hamburg
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—30th May, 1938. The German yacht Hamburg had grounded at the mouth of the River Crouch, but refloated without help.— Rewards, £11 6s. (See special account on page 538.).
Centenary Vellums
CENTENARY Vellums have been presented to a number of Stations during the present year, and reports of these Ceremonies'will appear in the next issue of The Lifeboat..
Category: Awards
Ethel and Mother's Joy
The Coastguard reported about 4 P.M. on 4th December that the two local fishing boats Ethel and Mother's Joy were in distress ofi Seaham, and a few minutes later the Motor Life-boat Elliot Galer put out.
A whole...
Penton
The motor cruiser Penton, of Cardiff, with three men on board, was making for Barry on the night of the 25th-26th June, when, through a defect in her machinery, she was obliged to anchor near Friars Point. Her anchors dragged and she lighted...
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
Category: Donations
A Small Boat
BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...
Her First Launch
The new life-boat Tynesider. She is a 46 ft. 9 ins. Watson cabin motor life-boat and went to the station on the 29th of November, 1947. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Youghal, Co. Cork.—At 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th of July, 1948, information was received that a sailing dinghy from Cork had capsized in the bay between Red Buoy and Capel Island, and at 6.15 the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah...