LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
An enjoyable experience While I was on holiday near Veryan last summer I enjoyed sailing by dinghy in Gerrans Bay. However on July 18, when I had the outboard motor on the boat, the motor failed and I was driven on to the rocks at Nare Head....
Category: Correspondence
Excelsior
WITHERNSEA.—On the 23rd January, the fishing smack Excelsior, of Grimsby, stranded about 150 yards N. of Withernsea Pier, having mistaken the pier light for that of a vessel at anchor. She burnt large flare light as a signal of distress, in...
A Canoe (6)
NOVEMBER 28TH. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
Two Royal Marine commandos in a canoe had capsized, but they were rescued by a motor boat. - Rewards, £11 7s..
Thistle
On the llth November, while the wind was blowing a whole gale from the S.S.W., the ketch Thistle^ of Plymouth, was observed on the Brake Sand. The Lifeboat pnt off at about 2.30 P.M., and proceeded to the vessel through very heavy broken...
Fishing Smacks
EYEMOUTH, N.B.—After a heavy which had been blowing for some days, temporary fine weather induced several fishing- boats to go to sea on the 5th April. Soon afterwards heavy ground seas set in, and fishing-boats from Eyemouth and several...
Teucer and David Livingstone
DECEMBER 7TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
An outward-bound convoy. under the command of Rear-admiral Ramsey, was passing. A gale was blowing and a drifter, which should have been there to bring ashore the pilots, had not arrived,...
A Steam Trawler Strathlethen
On the 29th December, 1933, the steam trawler Strathkthen, of Aberdeen, had her steering gear carried away while she was making for the harbour on her return from the fishing grounds. She became unman- ageable, and was thrown by a heavy sea...
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries
Shannon
WALMER On the morning of the 5th February, the coxswain of the Centurion Life-boat was informed by a boat's crew that they had seen a vessel on the Goodwin Sands; but as the wind and sea were nearly calm at the time, he did not think it...
Philatelic souvenirs
IT is NOW MORE than four years since the series of official RNLI commemorative covers was started. These colourful philatelic souvenirs of events in the life of the Institution were first issued in 1974 during the 150th anniversary year,...
Category: Articles